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[Sixties Fan]

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Thursday that more than a dozen of her former Trump administration colleagues plan to meet next week to try and stop former President Donald Trump as he continues to “manipulate people and divide our country.”

“Next week, a group of former Trump staff are going to come together, administration officials are going to come together and we’re going to talk about how we can formally do some things to try and stop him and also, the extremism, that that kind of violence, rhetoric that has been talked about and continues to divide our country,” Grisham told CNN’s John Berman and Brianna Keilar in an interview on “New Day.”

Grisham, who was also chief of staff to former first lady Melania Trump, declined to reveal who will be joining her in the efforts, but said there would be “about 15” of her former colleagues, including some who worked inside the White House. Some of the officials, she said, were junior to her, while others were senior. A few of the officials had “informal chats,” did outreach to others, and conducted “some Zooms, some conference calls,” culminating in the partially in-person formal meeting next week, according to Grisham.


Several people involved in the effort who spoke to CNN said the group currently includes between 15 to 20 individuals who served in the Trump administration, but have since soured on the former President, and who believe his indisputable control of the Republican Party is negatively impacting the country.

Among those invited to participate in the meeting were former senior officials like Chris Krebs, who had directed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency inside the Department of Homeland Security, and former top White House aides like John Bolton, whom Trump ousted from his role as national security adviser in September 2019.

Bolton spokeswoman Sarah Tinsley confirmed her planned attendance to CNN. A representative for Krebs declined to comment.

Others who plan to participate include former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who has accused Trump of having “perverted” the GOP; Miles Taylor, a former top DHS official who penned an anonymous essayduring Trump’s tenure in which he claimed to be working to restrain the President from within his administration; and Olivia Troye, a former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Vice President Mike Pence.

Grisham said she is personally hoping to “travel the country and talk to people who are believers like I once was” and “explain who (Trump) really is,” also calling the former President a “master manipulator.”

(full article online )

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/politics/stephanie-grisham-trump-officials-meeting-cnntv/index.html

 

[Sixties Fan]

Former Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chris Krebs joins Andrea Mitchell and Katy Tur to discuss current political candidates across the country who are still pushing the “Big Lie” that the 2020 election was stolen

 

[okfine]

Over the years the Texas senator has gone from Trump's biggest foe to one of his most loyal allies.

Mr Cruz once called Trump a "pathological liar" and a "coward".

This week he is leading the charge in the US Senate against certifying President-elect Joe Biden's election win.


(vide video online)

It's lapdog Ted's job for Texas. He was told fight for Texas against all enemies because we have major issues here.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Chris Krebs, a lifelong Republican, was put in charge of the agency handling election security by President Trump two years ago. When Krebs said the 2020 election was the country's most secure ever, Mr. Trump fired him. Now, Krebs speaks to Scott Pelley.

 

[Flash]

At least she is not saying that Donald took showers with her. Unlike Potatohead's relatives.

 

[Sixties Fan]

John Bolton served as national security adviser to Donald Trump from 2018 to 2019. He was previously the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and is the author of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir.

 

[Sixties Fan]

"Donald Trump sat by and did not perform the duties of President". Former National Security Adviser to President Trump John Bolton tells Times Radio that Trump "spent three hours watching television and doing nothing to help turn back the attack on the Capitol".

 

[Lastamender]

Start your own thread about it. It has nothing to do with this thread.

Who are you suppose to compare presidents to besides other presidents? I'll wait.

 

[Sixties Fan]

In a hearing of the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, former Attorney General William Barr testified he worried former President Donald Trump was “detached from reality.”

 

[White 6]

In a hearing of the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, former Attorney General William Barr testified he worried former President Donald Trump was “detached from reality.”

Multiple Post deleted as off thread topic response

 

[Sixties Fan]

Bill Barr was up close and personal with former President Donald Trump a lot when he served as attorney general.

And while Barr has opened up a good deal about his time in the Trump administration, there's one leading awkward moment that stands out, he told journalist Bari Weiss on her podcast, "Honestly," during an extensive interview.

"The president was bellowing at a number of his Cabinet secretaries and especially the military guys, the DoD secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and calling all of us f-cking losers at the top of his lungs," Barr said.

Barr appears to be talking about the incident on June 1, 2020, when the Cabinet was debating what to do about protesters across the US who filled the streets after Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

The details of that meeting were first laid out in "A Sacred Oath," a book by former Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Esper wrote that Trump wanted to shoot racial justice protesters in the legs, and threw a fit when Gen. Mark Milley, the then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told him he didn't have command authority over active duty or national guard forces.

Barr's answer about his most awkward moment came during the "lightning round" Weiss has at the end of her interviews, where guests have to quickly answer a series of quickly fired questions. Barr's book, "One Damn Thing After Another," recounted the incident as well.

Barr, who also served as attorney general under former President George H.W. Bush, was critical of Trump throughout much of the "Honestly" podcast, saying he opposed the way Trump attacked people who didn't agree with him, as well as his leadership style.


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Bill Barr said the most awkward moment of Trump's presidency was when he called his Cabinet secretaries 'losers' at the top of his lungs

"One would think that an executive would have a better idea how to operate with people and manage people, and he's a poor manager of people," Barr said.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Lastamender]

When did you read her diary?

Probably when it was published on the internet.

 

[Lastamender]

Multiple Post deleted as off thread topic response

In your opinion.

 

[BackAgain]

Donald Trump 's sister has told the truth about him to her niece Mary L. Trump.

Regardless of those truths, many have not heard or read them, and many have chosen to not believe or disregard what she has said.

But it is the truth, nevertheless, and a truth which shows where part of the country has gone to, or chosen to go to. Power. Power to control elections, power to control other people's rights. Power to not concede an election lost and do whatever can be done to overturn it. Power to take classified documents, leaving office as a citizen, to one's home.

If only more people would have listened to her words and others who have been warning, or had warned about Trump during his candidacy or afterwards. How long will it take?

It’s the “truth” because she says what you choose to believe. Is that how these things work, you simpleton?

 

[BackAgain]

Start your own thread about it. It has nothing to do with this thread.

Nope. It’s a valid question. And it’s quite obviously related to your silly thread and OP.

 

[The Duke]

Personally I think Cruz is a fuktard.

But people can change. Lots of people make friends with their enemies at some point.

Besides, career politicians are notorious for playing both sides and flip flopping.

No one has flopped more than Charlie Crist.

They can sure make a killer attack ad on that guy!

 

[The Duke]

Donald Trump 's sister has told the truth about him to her niece Mary L. Trump.

Regardless of those truths, many have not heard or read them, and many have chosen to not believe or disregard what she has said.

But it is the truth, nevertheless, and a truth which shows where part of the country has gone to, or chosen to go to. Power. Power to control elections, power to control other people's rights. Power to not concede an election lost and do whatever can be done to overturn it. Power to take classified documents, leaving office as a citizen, to one's home.

If only more people would have listened to her words and others who have been warning, or had warned about Trump during his candidacy or afterwards. How long will it take?

You're going by second hand hearsay? Pathetic!

 

[Sixties Fan]

Let's talk about dinner with Donald Trump,

(laughing)

which is an episode that's played out

at real cinematic length in your book.

And by the way, you got two scoops of ice cream.

Most guests apparently only get one.

That's what I've heard.

(laughing)

He was really putting the arm on you.

Is it customary for the Director of the FBI

to be invited to dinner at the residence of the President?

No, and it freaked me out.

And so, I was consoled that afternoon

by recently-departed Director of National Intelligence,

Jim Clapper, who I was giving a recognition to at the FBI,

and I told him about this invitation.

The President had called me at my desk

while I'm having a sandwich and asked me

did I want to come over for dinner that night.

And I said, I don't know what this is about.

It makes me very uncomfortable.

He called you for that night?

That seems rude.

(laughing)

Yeah.

It's funny you should say that.

He said, You want to come over for dinner tonight?

And I kind of paused a little bit.

And he said, Because if you can't do it tonight,

we could do it tomorrow night.

I'm here all weekend.

(laughing)

And he said, How about tonight?

Is 6 or 6:30 better?

And I said whatever works for you, Mr. President.

And I had a date with my wife to get Thai food,

which I should have kept (laughs).

(laughing)

Yeah, you really should have.

I hung up, as I explain in the book,

and I broke the date with Patrice.

And I, what Clapper said to me was,

No, it's gonna be a group thing.

I've heard other people are being invited to dinner.

And so I was relieved.

I thought, okay, well that kind of makes sense.

It'll probably be leaders of Homeland Security

and other agencies so the President

can get to know his team or something.

Fun.

And so I go over.

(laughing)

And, you say fun?

Fun, yeah.

(laughing)

Yep, being FBI Director's nothing but fun (laughs).

Now, you said earlier today in an interview

that you don't hate the President.

You don't even dislike him.

I'll let that pitch go by.

(laughing)

You know it's funny, my wife asked me the same question

after she saw the interview.

And the answer is I dislike many of things he does.

Him as a person I actually, this is gonna sound odd,

I actually kind of feel sorry for.

How so?

I think, I've said this before, it's a hard thing to say,

but I think he has an emptiness inside of him

and a hunger for affirmation I've never seen in an adult.

(laughing)

And I'm not saying that to be funny.

I think that he lacks external reference points,

and instead of calling, making hard decisions

by calling upon a religious tradition or logic

or tradition or history, it's all what will fill this hole.

You think something's missing?

Something is missing in his life that has created

this orientation that I've never,

I meant when I said I've not seen in an adult before.

In other words, what we're looking at in the days

and weeks to come is a series of

an attempt at seduction, and then at pressure.

Let's talk about the seduction at dinner.

How does he do it?

Does he have charm?

How does he try to reel you in?

First of all, I figured out it was just the two of us

by standing in the doorway and seeing this little table

in the middle of the Green Room.

(laughing)

That's Director of the FBI can figure that out.

Investigator.

(laughing)

Your tax dollars were well spent with me.

Exactly.

(laughing)

There ya go.

Yeah, and so at the beginning of the dinner he said,

So what do you want to do?

And then we had a conversation about whether I intended

to stay as FBI Director, which was so strange

because he had, by that point, I think three times

said that he hoped I was going to stay.

And in the episode where I was trying

to hide in the drape in the Blue Room,

(laughing)

which is not made up, by the way.

And the whole world, including my children,

thought he kissed me.

(laughing)

It was not a kiss.

He was whispering in my ear,

I really look forward to working with you.

And so now at the beginning of the dinner,

he's acting like we never had those conversations

and did I want to stay at FBI Director.

And he would understand if I wanted to walk away,

lots of people want my job, that kind of thing.

And then a short time later, he just looked at me

and said he needed loyalty.

He expects loyalty.

And I, I was stunned by that, and so I just stared at him.

And it seemed like an eternity.

It was probably a couple seconds.

And then he dropped his eyes and continued eating,

and I continued eating.

And then he started talking more.

And he came back to that late in the dinner.

He clearly noticed that I just stared at him

when he asked for loyalty.

So he came back to it.

And I tried, during the dinner,

between the first request for loyalty and the second request

to interject things that would explain to him

why it's so important that the Justice Department

be at a distance from the President.

(full interview online)

James Comey on His Infamous Dinner with Trump

David Remnick speaks with James Comey about the “emptiness” of Donald Trump and whether the President is fit for office.

www.newyorker.com

 

[Lastamender]

Let's talk about dinner with Donald Trump,

(laughing)

which is an episode that's played out

at real cinematic length in your book.

And by the way, you got two scoops of ice cream.

Most guests apparently only get one.

That's what I've heard.

(laughing)

He was really putting the arm on you.

Is it customary for the Director of the FBI

to be invited to dinner at the residence of the President?

No, and it freaked me out.

And so, I was consoled that afternoon

by recently-departed Director of National Intelligence,

Jim Clapper, who I was giving a recognition to at the FBI,

and I told him about this invitation.

The President had called me at my desk

while I'm having a sandwich and asked me

did I want to come over for dinner that night.

And I said, I don't know what this is about.

It makes me very uncomfortable.

He called you for that night?

That seems rude.

(laughing)

Yeah.

It's funny you should say that.

He said, You want to come over for dinner tonight?

And I kind of paused a little bit.

And he said, Because if you can't do it tonight,

we could do it tomorrow night.

I'm here all weekend.

(laughing)

And he said, How about tonight?

Is 6 or 6:30 better?

And I said whatever works for you, Mr. President.

And I had a date with my wife to get Thai food,

which I should have kept (laughs).

(laughing)

Yeah, you really should have.

I hung up, as I explain in the book,

and I broke the date with Patrice.

And I, what Clapper said to me was,

No, it's gonna be a group thing.

I've heard other people are being invited to dinner.

And so I was relieved.

I thought, okay, well that kind of makes sense.

It'll probably be leaders of Homeland Security

and other agencies so the President

can get to know his team or something.

Fun.

And so I go over.

(laughing)

And, you say fun?

Fun, yeah.

(laughing)

Yep, being FBI Director's nothing but fun (laughs).

Now, you said earlier today in an interview

that you don't hate the President.

You don't even dislike him.

I'll let that pitch go by.

(laughing)

You know it's funny, my wife asked me the same question

after she saw the interview.

And the answer is I dislike many of things he does.

Him as a person I actually, this is gonna sound odd,

I actually kind of feel sorry for.

How so?

I think, I've said this before, it's a hard thing to say,

but I think he has an emptiness inside of him

and a hunger for affirmation I've never seen in an adult.

(laughing)

And I'm not saying that to be funny.

I think that he lacks external reference points,

and instead of calling, making hard decisions

by calling upon a religious tradition or logic

or tradition or history, it's all what will fill this hole.

You think something's missing?

Something is missing in his life that has created

this orientation that I've never,

I meant when I said I've not seen in an adult before.

In other words, what we're looking at in the days

and weeks to come is a series of

an attempt at seduction, and then at pressure.

Let's talk about the seduction at dinner.

How does he do it?

Does he have charm?

How does he try to reel you in?

First of all, I figured out it was just the two of us

by standing in the doorway and seeing this little table

in the middle of the Green Room.

(laughing)

That's Director of the FBI can figure that out.

Investigator.

(laughing)

Your tax dollars were well spent with me.

Exactly.

(laughing)

There ya go.

Yeah, and so at the beginning of the dinner he said,

So what do you want to do?

And then we had a conversation about whether I intended

to stay as FBI Director, which was so strange

because he had, by that point, I think three times

said that he hoped I was going to stay.

And in the episode where I was trying

to hide in the drape in the Blue Room,

(laughing)

which is not made up, by the way.

And the whole world, including my children,

thought he kissed me.

(laughing)

It was not a kiss.

He was whispering in my ear,

I really look forward to working with you.

And so now at the beginning of the dinner,

he's acting like we never had those conversations

and did I want to stay at FBI Director.

And he would understand if I wanted to walk away,

lots of people want my job, that kind of thing.

And then a short time later, he just looked at me

and said he needed loyalty.

He expects loyalty.

And I, I was stunned by that, and so I just stared at him.

And it seemed like an eternity.

It was probably a couple seconds.

And then he dropped his eyes and continued eating,

and I continued eating.

And then he started talking more.

And he came back to that late in the dinner.

He clearly noticed that I just stared at him

when he asked for loyalty.

So he came back to it.

And I tried, during the dinner,

between the first request for loyalty and the second request

to interject things that would explain to him

why it's so important that the Justice Department

be at a distance from the President.

(full interview online)

James Comey on His Infamous Dinner with Trump

David Remnick speaks with James Comey about the “emptiness” of Donald Trump and whether the President is fit for office.

www.newyorker.com

You are one of the very few that believe anything Comey says. He lied to Congress, he has no compunction about lying to you.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on Friday said that former President Donald Trump has been "basically at war" with the law enforcement agency since 2016 and warned of the risks posed to agents after the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence was searched by federal officials last week.

During an appearance on CNN's "New Day," McCabe — who first joined the FBI in 1996 and rose through the ranks to become deputy director in 2016 under then-director James Comey — remarked that Trump's sustained broadsides against the department took a toll on the "trust" that is necessary to work successfully in such an environment.

"There's no question that the work environment for FBI people has been getting tougher and tougher. Tougher over the last five or six years, right?" he said.

He continued: "Trump has been basically at war with the FBI since we opened a case on his campaign in July of 2016. That has a corrosive effect on the ability of FBI agents and professional support staff to develop the sort of trust that they need to get their job done."

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He continued: "So, you know, this is what counterterrorism experts and observers and folks like myself have been talking about for months. Donald Trump has an amazing amount of influence over people who harbor these sorts of beliefs when he baselessly floats out an allegation, as he did on Monday, about the FBI possibly planting evidence in his residence, which we all know there's been absolutely zero proof produced for that."

(full article online)

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe says Trump has been 'basically at war' with the Iaw enforcement agency since 2016

"There's no question that the work environment for FBI people has been getting tougher and tougher," McCabe said of the agency on CNN's "New Day."

www.businessinsider.com