And especially accusing Brennan of “outrageous” “erratic” behavior or “making wild outbursts”! What a larf.

I’m with you. The focus should be on the administration blocking and silencing critics from the intelligence community, not on a reality show contestant.

The article is complaining about is that the case of someone not absolutely guaranteeing that someone else said a racial slur (that everyone pretty much agrees that he has said any way) is much more important than actual policy implementation of humiliating and revoking traditionally granted security clearances from Pr…

Standard penalties for lying on government clearance forms are fines and or imprisonment up to five years.

I understood it be arguing that focusing on whether the racist president once said something really racist on tape is more important than the administration revoking security clearances from its critics. Which I strongly disagree with.

Exactly. A tape of Trump saying the N-word won’t make a bit of difference. We already know he’s racist. If anything, such a tape will just strengthen his support. 

The Peace Corps thing is a myth. A background check takes (significantly) longer if you’ve lived overseas, especially if you didn’t have a physical mailing address during that time, but it doesn’t disqualify you from a TS/SCI clearance. There are even jobs in the Peace Corps that require a security clearance.

Bingo, the president’s son in law can lie on his forms and claim they were mistakes and go back and change them but any other person would have been thrown in jail for lying on a government form.

It’ll make him a folk hero among the swine that makes up his base. And it will give the Bob Corkers of the world something to wag their fingers at before voting in favor of whatever fresh horror this administration puts forth. 

What I want to know is what do people think is going to happen if a recording of him saying it surfaces. Does anyone really think it’s going to make a damn bit of difference?

There is certainly a valid case to be made for any potential presidential candidate (and, more broadly, any elected official or appointed public servant who will be privy to top secret information) being required to go through the background checks and lie detector tests and other invasive crap necessary to get and…

Don’t really care about the Omarosa tape and I think it is, indeed, more pertinent to focus on Trump revoking the clearances of his personal enemies. As a strategy, it worked and gave the press red meat to froth over, sure, but the press will keep doing what suits their masters no matter what.

I would absolutely love to see the results of a Donald Trump attempt to get a legitimate Top Secret security clearance.

Trump accusing other people of “erratic behavior” is peak comedy.

I mean... we all know he said it. I don’t need a recording to know that. He probably has said it in the last month (I bet SHS was standing just outside the door so she can say she wasn’t in the room). Actually he’s probably said it in the last week since the whole discussion of a tape came about.

A flaming ball of gas definitely describes Trump.

According to your link, the Democratic incumbent won in 2012 with 56% of the vote. He ran unopposed in 2014 and 2016 which seems to indicate that it is a safe blue district.

Sophie, I’m not challenging your integrity as a journalist by asking this. But are you sure, REALLY sure, that this guy isn’t one of Sacha Baron Cohen’s characters?

Yet another breathtaking specimen of the master race. It amazes me how this true Adonis can tear himself away from the mirror for however-the-fuck long it takes to educate us about chem-trails, homo frogs, and the Jewish, black and LGBTQ “agendas”.