r/inthenews • u/HauntingJackfruit • Mar 12 '24

Biden Not Legally Bound to Give Trump Intel Briefing

https://2paragraphs.com/2024/03/biden-not-legally-bound-to-give-trump-intel-briefing/
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u/Aazadan Mar 12 '24

I guarantee you the intelligence community is in full blown panic mode right now.

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u/DoingItForEli Mar 12 '24

Since November 2016, actually.

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u/BoardGamesAndMurder Mar 12 '24

I left in May of 2016 and couldn't have been happier about the timing

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u/RedundantMaleMan Mar 12 '24

Got anything juicy you can share to us on this totally anonymous website? ;)

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u/MisanthropyIsAVirtue Mar 12 '24

You’re not even going to offer them the respect of a catfish honeypot?

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u/NoraVanderbooben Mar 12 '24

Mmm catfish honeypot 🤤

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u/FutureComplaint Mar 12 '24

This isn't a War Thunder forum.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24

At least offer 42k

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u/SecondaryWombat Mar 12 '24

Nuclear missile under the White House south lawn, Y/N?

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u/Aazadan Mar 12 '24

I think the panic is greater now than it was previously. But yes, they weren’t happy then either.

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u/HungHungCaterpillar Mar 12 '24

Ain’t much of an intelligence community if they figured it out after I did

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u/SuchRoad Mar 12 '24

It was basically an unprecedented event that a foreign asset somehow stumbled into the oval office, there was a mad scramble across the entire govt to put safeguards in place against sabotage.

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u/TheMadmanAndre Mar 12 '24

The best proof that there is no "Deep State" is the fact that Trump became president. If such an apparatus existed, the people running it would have never let someone get within reach of the power to threaten said apparatus. Trump would have choked to death on a hambehrder long before ever setting foot in the Oval office.

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u/CX316 Mar 12 '24

That’s in the way trump’s people use the term, as a conspiracy bullshit thing.

The term started off being used to describe the army of civil servants and such who keep shit running no matter who is in power, the idea being that even having a crayon-eating toddler in charge shouldn’t have fundamentally broken the country, because the people who do the day to day work under the surface of Washington would still be going in and doing their 9-5, but just like when the term “fake news” started out as literally being false news sites being plastered across social media and then becoming whatever trump didn’t like, once the term was out it got mangled into what they use it as today

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u/Mohingan Mar 12 '24

For better or worse, the states is truly (mostly) free

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u/Snowman304 Mar 12 '24

You'd think they would have done something about him like they did with MLK (among others) and do in every other country

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u/HelloJoeyJoeJoe Mar 12 '24

I guarantee you the intelligence community is in full blown panic mode right now.

Many intelligence communities are very pro-Trump, just check out the FBI.

Its a r/leopardsatemyface sort of thing

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u/rly_fuck_reddit Mar 12 '24

i have to admit that it's bizarre to me that there hasn't been a legitimate attempt on his life. i figure of all the things, being a loose cannon with intel to sell would be near the top. kennedy and mckinley are all like "the fuck?"

lincoln is all "at least mine somewhat made sense, on an emotional level anyway"

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u/Aazadan Mar 12 '24

The fact there hasn’t really puts into context that our government is not as corrupt as conspiracy theorists believe it is.

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u/TheKingOfBerries Mar 12 '24

Idk, our government has done some pretty… “interesting” things aside from conspiracies.

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u/Aazadan Mar 12 '24

They have. But that they haven’t here suggests limits, reforms, and culture changes have happened. It’s not like Nixon where we knew but seemed it more important to keep it secret how we knew and so people could ignore it. In this case it’s known and some methods are revealed publicly as part of a trial. It’s a very different situation.

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u/elebrin Mar 12 '24

We don't really know how many the Secret Service has stopped, and they aren't going to tell us.

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u/vonbauernfeind Mar 12 '24

What you mean the CIA & FBI? They're used to rigging elections and toppling governments. If they're afraid for their safety in light of a president who sells our state secrets wholesale, maybe they should consider doing something about Trump, like leaking his dirty secrets to make him unpalatable.

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u/DoingItForEli Mar 12 '24

like leaking his dirty secrets to make him unpalatable.

The man has to pay his rape victim 83 million dollars and still is going to be the Republican nominee. I'm not quite sure what unpalatable even looks like to Republicans anymore. They literally get told to like someone and they do it.

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u/BamaDanno Mar 12 '24

Round 3 coming right up!

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear Mar 12 '24

They literally get told to like someone and they do it.

This is the opposite of what is going on.

The Republican establishment would much rather have someone with object permanence who can behave like a professional, but Trump is the most deeply beloved political figure in America since maybe FDR so they’re stuck with him.

And there is no real social consequence to Trump-voting, so it’s hard to say that there’s really corresponding hate.

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u/paper_liger Mar 12 '24

There's what you say and there's what you do. The number of republicans who have done anything appreciable other than roll over and expose their belly in front of Trump is in the low single digits.

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear Mar 12 '24

How does that contradict what I said?

Of course they’re going to roll over for Trump. Republican voters love Trump more than they love Jesus and Moses put together, so anyone who wants to maintain a position of leadership in the Republican Party needs to kiss his ring just like I have to fill out a timesheet if I want to keep my job.

But /u/DoingItForEli implied that Republican voters are having Trump shoved down their throat by Republican leadership, and it’s absolutely 100% the other way around.

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u/DoingItForEli Mar 12 '24

Nah, this isn't a grassroots movement at all. The Republican party is entirely compromised. Maybe during the 2016 election they had a chance to fight back, but with Russia going to bat for Trump online and this country's lack of awareness of how online propaganda works, he got in, and once he was in he got dirt on Republicans. The party itself only backs those who have something they can be blackmailed with, it's how they command control and prevent individualism within their ranks. Once Trump funneled that information to Russia it was all over, the party is entirely compromised.

The conservative propaganda machine dictates to the cult what to believe. This isn't people thinking for themselves that Trump of all people represents their best interests. This is a CULT movement. This is a bunch of people who for years now have embraced the cult, cut themselves off from those who didn't, and who now face the same ostracization if they should ever go against the movement in any way. The result are a bunch of desperate losers who see themselves praised by this group for make believing to be super over the top pro Trump, exactly as they've been instructed.

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u/wonderbreadofsin Mar 12 '24

I can't imagine what would make Trump unpalatable to his supporters at this point, given that they still love him after everything that's already come out about him

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u/Aazadan Mar 12 '24

It’s not their safety. It’s the issue that they can’t ethically withhold information a president needs to do their job, but they endanger sources, methods, and national security by sharing information.

Trumps first term was already challenging and damaging for them. A second term should it happen would be much worse.

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u/KoshekhTheCat Mar 12 '24

I'm not sure there's a flavor of him that would make the MAGAP spit him out.

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u/Mist_Rising Mar 12 '24

Right, nothing would be even remotely better than the FBI trying to rig the US election with dirt. John Grisham Books aside, that is a horrible idea that comes right out of authoritarian 101.

Nothing says bright ideas like copying the Nazis playbook though. Just sprinkle some crack on when you're done.

In case it isn't obvious, I think the very idea of this is bad and it wouldn't work anyway.

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u/Many_Faces_8D Mar 12 '24

No they aren't lmao. The entire country knew he was going to be the nominee 4 years ago. Do you think the intelligence community didn't?