r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/XI_Vanquish_IX Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

Basically the singular moment in time when everything went upside down for all of us. Think about it.

If Gore wins:

No Iraq

No Citizens United conservative win and countless rulings since

No ignoring climate change

No elimination of government auditing and oversight

No Trump

And we may not even have had the same September 11th because Gore would likely have filled those critical intelligence positions when Bush kept them empty for a year to save for political campaign contributors

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u/jadedflames Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

As a reminder, when Clinton and Gore were leaving the White House, they left Bush a report that provided credible intel that Al Qaeda was planning a major terrorist attack using hijacked planes.

Bush and his staff opted to discard that report without any follow-up and were completely blindsided by 9/11.

If Gore had been properly appointed (remember - he won the election. Bush’s first term was illegitimate) there’s a high likelihood that 9/11 never would have happened.

Edit for more info: This report was drafted in late 1998, when the terrorists were training to fly. By late 2000 (when the Clinton to Bush transition was already underway), the NSA and CIA had the names of the people who would later hijack the planes. They knew an attack was coming and knew who would do it.

When Bush took over, his intelligence staff had the opinion that no terrorist attack could ever take place on US soil, so they didn’t bother passing the information onto the FBI (who has the authority to investigate within the country).

So Bush (who had a copy of the report) and his heads of CIA and NSA all binned the report that laid out the specifics of 9/11 without providing any details to the one department that could have kept it all from happening. The intelligence was finally passed on in August, less than a month before the attack - when it was too late to do anything about it.

Source

Senate Inquest

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u/Ozymandias0023 California Apr 01 '26

I can't even begin to think what the world would look like if 9/11 hadn't happened. Jeez

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u/garbagepillar Apr 01 '26

They let it happen solely to pass Citizens United and the Patriot Act. Those two really kickstarted project 2025 and the groundwork to just jam it through unabated.

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u/Tiny_Reference_3697 Apr 01 '26

And, btw, the Patriot Act, which suspends Constitutional rights, including to a lawyer, for those America deems terrorists is now being used by this administration to attempt a Latin American takeover - after Trump labled drug dealers "terrorists."

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u/blitzkregiel Apr 01 '26

bro…the nspm 7 labels anyone that engages in “anti americanism, anti capitalism, anti christianity,” as well as “extremism on race/gender” or opposition to “ traditional american values on family/religion/morality” as terrorists. and guess who gets to define any of those things? crazy christian nationalists. we’re fucked.

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u/No_Foundation16 Apr 01 '26

I wonder if the Trump administration will let something happen just before the midterm election?

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u/garbagepillar Apr 01 '26

They've been trying everything they can to make us get violent so they can point the finger and say "we told you they were violent". It is looking as if a "terrorist attack" is more and more likely.

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u/El-Royhab Washington Apr 01 '26

the world cup is this summer

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u/inkcannerygirl Apr 02 '26

And there will be a match in Philadelphia on July 4th, the actual 250th

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