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7 years before his death. That is exactly what Trumps wants.

What Trump wants is hyphenated Trump-Americans, people who swear allegiance to him, not the Constitution,

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Tough. You don’t publically call the president of the Unites States a traitor if you are a “patriot”

That's debatable. What if you sincerely believe that the president is incompetent, dishonest, or has violated his oath of office? Here's a dictionary definition of "patriot":

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a person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interests with devotion.

Whether or not the sun rises in the East is debatable. Calling anyone, let alone POTUS, a traitor is an extremely serious accusation that no true patriot would indulge in because of a personal vendetta.

So unless someone is privy to the inner workings of Brennan's brain I don't see how we establish that his devotion falls short of what's required to be truly "patriotic". Obviously different people have different conceptions of what it means to be a "patriot". I doubt that uncritical support of a sitting president is a widely accepted criterion.

I don't know why it is necessary to constantly point out I don't object to criticism of POTUS (Actually I do - I have to constantly respond to intellectually dishonest cheap arguments)

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Nor do spy on members of Congress and then lie about it.

Publicly revealing the existence of a top secret intelligence program would be considered disgracefully "unpatriotic" in some circles.

Oh really? Please defend, specifically, how the CIA's spying on Dianne Feinstein was crucial to National Security...especially since it didn't lead to the revelation that a member of her staff for decades was a Chinese agent. You libs used to almost pathologically distrust the CIA and FBI, but now you are among their greatest defenders. What the hell happened?

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Your tolerance of his disgraceful behavior is remarkable but telling

What you think I "tolerate" is totally irrelevant. Why personalize the discussion? Any alleged hypocrisy on my part doesn't change the fact that you made this statement:

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He's calling POTUS a traitor for meeting with Putin.

I disagreed and pointed out that Trump was criticized for his behavior, not for simply meeting with Putin. Tough.

Whiney John Brennan Revoked the Security Clearances of Benghazi Heroes

BRENNAN REMOVED PARONTO’S CLEARANCES WITHOUT GIVING A REASON

Paronto said he never shared intel but his security clearance was removed by Brennan. Brennan never told him why.

He blasted Brennan for the way the heroes of Benghazi were treated upon return.

America is fed up.

When Teddy Roosevelt Banned Muslims from America
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Unlike modern presidents, Roosevelt did not view Islam as a force for good. Instead he had described Muslims as “enemies of civilization”, writing that, “The civilization of Europe, America and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization”, praising Charles Martel and John Sobieski for throwing back the “Moslem conquerors” whose depredations had caused Christianity to have “practically vanished from the two continents.”

While today even mentioning “Radical Islam” occasions hysterical protests from the media, Theodore Roosevelt spoke and wrote casually of “the murderous outbreak of Moslem brutality” and, with a great deal of foresight offered a description of reform movements in Egypt that could have been just as well applied to the Arab Spring, describing the “mass of practically unchained bigoted Moslems to whom the movement meant driving out the foreigner, plundering and slaying the local Christian.”

Oh really? Please defend, specifically, how the CIA's spying on Dianne Feinstein was crucial to National Security...especially since it didn't lead to the revelation that a member of her staff for decades was a Chinese agent.

You libs used to almost pathologically distrust the CIA and FBI, but now you are among their greatest defenders. What the hell happened?

President Roosevelt was no fan of the Russians: “No human beings, black, yellow or white, could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant — in short, as untrustworthy in every way — as the Russians,” he wrote in August 1905, near the end of the Russo-Japanese

In a secret presidential cable to Tokyo, in July 1905, Roosevelt approved the Japanese annexation of Korea and agreed to an “understanding or alliance” among Japan, the United States and Britain “as if the United States were under treaty obligations.” The “as if” was key: Congress was much less interested in North Asia than Roosevelt was, so he came to his agreement with Japan in secret, an unconstitutional act.

Trump's unfitness for office scares career diplomats and intelligence professionals.

Trump's unfitness for office scares career diplomats and intelligence professionals.

WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, including some that investigators would not have learned of otherwise, according to a dozen current and former White House officials and others briefed on the matter.

In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it. He provided the investigators examining whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice a clear view of the president’s most intimate moments with his lawyer.

Among them were Mr. Trump’s comments and actions during the firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and Mr. Trump’s obsession with putting a loyalist in charge of the inquiry, including his repeated urging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to claim oversight of it. Mr. McGahn was also centrally involved in Mr. Trump’s attempts to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which investigators might not have discovered without him.

For a lawyer to share so much with investigators scrutinizing his client is unusual. Lawyers are rarely so open with investigators, not only because they are advocating on behalf of their clients but also because their conversations with clients are potentially shielded by attorney-client privilege, and in the case of presidents, executive privilege.

As agitprop agents go, I have to reluctantly admit that you're not bad.