Representative Mike Waltz, President Trump's choice to lead the National Security Council, said in an interview published Thursday that all current civil service members of the NSC who are detailed from another agency are expected to be out of the building as soon as Trump is sworn in.

“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”

What Waltz, a retired Special Forces colonel, is reacting to is the obstruction and leaks from the NSC staff on loan from other agencies that damaged Trump's agenda in his first term. He plans to get rid of people who may have made a career as part of the "interagency process" and have more loyalty to that process than they do to Trump. //

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Nah, you were fired for leaking a privileged conversation to a co-conspirator who then had himself labeled a "whistleblower" to create a fake fact case for impeaching President Trump. And also for being a treasonous oxygen thief. //

There is an admitted danger in groupthink. We can see that in the way the Biden NSC has coddled Iran, China, and Russia in the misguided view that in some bizarro universe, they would become useful members of the international community. Dissent doesn't need to be hashed out at the staff level. Also, I don't think anyone in the Trump administration is interested in "continuity of policy" with Biden because his foreign policy failures, both active and in terms of missed opportunities, are the stuff of legend. //

You have to admire how Vindman categorizes himself as a "talented professional" who was dismissed for taking "principled stances or offering objective advice." Actually, the role of making policy in civil service is the realm of political appointees. The career staff are supposed to serve every president loyally. The last thing needed in the NSC are staffers who are first and foremost loyal to "the way we've always done it," who are overly concerned about the agency "equities" at stake when decisions are made, and who see themselves as players in policy in their own right. //

John Q. Public
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LOL at the tags…
Douchenozzle is correct.

Also, when he says, “tens of thousands of senior apolitical government officials” he is unintentionally letting slip how many actually need to be fired.

American Leftists have lied about President Trump and his supporters for so long that they are utterly bereft. How will they make it through the new year? Will they proceed through the steps of grief and finally accept that they were in error and outside the bounds of rationality or will they get stuck in anger—the second stage of grief?1

For some the stage of bargaining has begun already. They are insisting that we, Trump and the MAGA movement, we who insist on the precepts of the Constitution and rule of law, treat our Leftists better than they ever treated Trump or us.

Remember how they projected their anti-American rage on all conservatives? //

The anti-American Leftists want us to forget about their crimes and misdeeds, such as labeling the events of January 6, 2021, an insurrection, led by President Trump. Odd, isn’t it, that no one has been charged or convicted of insurrection in the Department of Justice’s largest manhunt in history.

Trump, whom the anti-American Left and its media gang continue to label an insurrectionist, was the one who had the National Guard standby to help keep the peace on January 6. But D.C. Mayor Bowser and Capitol Police and then-Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, specifically indicated that they did not want the National Guard at the Capitol or the Mall. Who called for peace? President Trump. Who was more concerned about the optics? The anti-American Leftists, of whom Pelosi is one. //

But for political equilibrium to be restored in America, those who have done wrong, who have violated the law (i.e., the Congressional J6 Committee that suborned perjury, doctored evidence, and suppressed exculpatory evidence), must be held accountable. That is the only way to restore the rule of law.

In order to have freedom, you must have the rule of law. The rule of law prevents bullies from overwhelming the weak. It preserves equal treatment before the law.

And, if the anti-American Left is grieving because of the electoral beating that they took in November, it might be possible that there is some residual desire for justice on the Right.

Accountability might just help the anti-American Left finally come to acceptance, the final stage of grief.

The liberal-left reaps what it sows. It was not merely Trump that was chosen. It was the not-Democrat, the option that wasn’t in power. A vote is a middle finger aimed to the sky. In the heat of all this, the liberal-left will have to recalibrate or dissolve. Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you’ve never lived anything close to a precarious life. Harder, still, if you’ve allowed condescension and indignation to become the pillars of a worldview. The smug never inherit the Earth. If only the Bible printed this, or someone took it to cable television in time. Much grief could have been saved.

The smug never inherit the Earth.

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Either this is all fraudulent, or the media - Left, but also the more bellicose Right, at times - are so rutted in the narrative that Trump is the worst human alive that his complexity, humanity and, yes, goodness get squeezed out. We need much more on this.

Last week, Fox News contributor Tyrus sat down with Donald Trump for an exclusive interview for the latest episode of Maintaing With Tyrus on OutKick. The conversation focused on manhood, religion, schools, surviving an assassination attempt and also delved into who Trump is as a person.

A reader contacted OutKick to alert us that when they tried to share the YouTube link of the interview on Facebook, they were unable to do so and instead received a message stating the following: "Your content couldn't be shared because this goes against our Community Standards."

In response, we tried to share the video ourselves and were met with the same notification (see below). OutKick heard from dozens of people across America who had the same experience. //

The Trump-Tyrus interview wasn't the only video that people had trouble sharing. After the initial issue was pointed out, we tried to post Clay Travis' interview with Donald Trump from the Alabama-Georgia game earlier this month. The link to that interview was also blocked from sharing on Facebook and supposedly violated the same "Community Standards" as the Tyrus interview.

Gold Star families and former White House officials are slamming Jeffrey Goldberg’s attempt to smear Trump with another fallacious hit piece. //

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of far-left propaganda outlet The Atlantic, published an article Tuesday with glaring fabrications about former President Donald Trump’s interactions with the families of fallen service members and his outlook on military leadership.

Goldberg’s dishonest hit piece is the latest in a long line of far-left outlets lying and deceiving the American people before a major election. //

While Goldberg’s claims are sourced by “contemporaneous notes” and “a witness,” they were disputed publicly by senior members of the Trump administration who were actually in the room at the time of the alleged incident. //

Goldberg’s smear piece is in line with his 2020 lie, the “suckers and loser” hoax that was also heavily rebutted by nearly everyone involved, which he originated late in the election season as well. Conveniently, Democrats have since been rolling that hoax out every time Trump mentions the military, as they did again in the aftermath of Trump attending the Arlington National Cemetery ceremony.

As my colleague Jordan Boyd wrote, “Nearly two dozen Trump White House officials debunked the hit piece, which only received ‘confirmation’ from one source outside of Goldberg.” In the same way, Goldberg’s newest screed is thinly sourced and relies on anonymous testimony while ignoring or devaluing on-the-record statements.

Goldberg also appears to have invented out of thin air a denial from Meadows spokesman Ben Williamson, saying that Meadows “denied having heard Trump make the statement.” In reality, Meadows said Trump “absolutely did not say that.”

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On the left: I sent Atlantic a comment saying President Trump “absolutely did not say that,” referring to the alleged comments about Ms. Guillen they printed.

On the right: Atlantic translated that comment to “didn’t hear Trump say it.”

Treat this dishonest piece accordingly.
6:07 PM · Oct 22, 2024

Jeffrey Goldberg published a bombshell story that convulsed the nation. No, I’m not talking about his recent Atlantic magazine piece claiming, based on the testimony of four anonymous sources, that President Trump had grossly disrespected America’s dead and wounded warriors in 2018.

I’m talking about Goldberg’s New Yorker feature claiming that “the relationship between Saddam’s regime and ­al-Qaeda is far closer than previously thought.” Published less than a year after 9/11, the story fed into the fervid pro-war atmosphere that then gripped the nation.

Headlined “The Great Terror,” the essay was based on a reporting trip to Iraq’s northern Kurdish zone. It recounted, in terrifying and admirable detail, Saddam Hussein’s 1988 poison-gas assault against Kurdish civilians in the village of Halabja.

Along the way, Goldberg did other things, too — chief among them, speaking to alleged terrorist detainees in a prison run by a pro-regime-change Kurdish faction.

The mostly unnamed prisoners, per Goldberg, informed him “that the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein has joint control, with al-Qaeda operatives, over [a local jihadist faction]; that Saddam Hussein hosted a senior leader of al-Qaeda in Baghdad in 1992; that a number of al-Qaeda members fleeing ­Afghanistan have been secretly brought into territory controlled by [the local jihadists]; and that Iraqi intelligence agents smuggled conventional weapons, and possibly even chemical and biological weapons, into Afghanistan.” //

Pretty chilling stuff. The Bush administration made Saddam’s ties to al-Qaeda a key plank of its case for regime change. The war happened. Saddam was toppled. But in the years that followed, the Iraq-al-Qaeda link posited by Goldberg unraveled.

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After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story.
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“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had”: Trump’s obsession with dictators and disdain for America’s military are deepening, @JeffreyGoldberg reports: https://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?taid=6717ffe956474d000110c05d&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=true-anthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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I was in the discussions featured in the Atlantic’s latest hit piece against President Trump. Let me say this.

Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false.

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4:42 PM · Oct 22, 2024 //

This calls to mind Goldberg's infamous fable, when he told his readers in a Sept. 3, 2020, piece, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’” that Trump ridiculed fallen warriors when the decision was made not to visit the Belleau Wood military cemetery in France during the centennial commemoration of the end of World War I.

A senior Army officer traveling with the president that day told RedState the trip to Belleau Wood, which is sacred to the Marines, was scrubbed because the foul weather grounded the helicopters.

Without helicopters, the president and his entourage would be a slow-moving motorcade on country roads for 45 minutes, a target too rich to provide to an adversary—coupled with the fact that without helicopters, there could be no medevac by air if something happened.

At the center of this controversy is Klippenstein’s decision to release the Trump campaign’s vetting documents on Vance, which included the senator’s personal information, including emails, phone numbers, and addresses. The documents were obtained by hackers on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which means there's a possibility that Klippenstein may be (purposely or accidentally) doing Tehran’s bidding for political purposes.

In response, X suspended Klippenstein’s account, which has angered folks on the left. They argue that this decision is hypocritical. They also claim folks on the right who support the move are also being hypocritical because of their opposition to the platform’s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. //

What these folks are missing – or deliberately leaving out – is that X adopted a policy in March that disallows “doxxing,” which occurs when someone exposes personal information without the person’s consent: //

Under the previous management, the laptop story was suppressed for a different reason: The company claimed it was information that was hacked by Russians. This contention was later exposed as one in a long list of left-wing hoaxes.

What is also interesting about this story is that the doxxing of Vance was done using information coming from Iranian hackers, which clearly violates the platform’s rules. //

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Dear Molly Stupid, Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t stolen. Wasn’t released by foreign actors and you are still lying about it. So there is that //

John Q. Public
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They seem to ignore the fact that Hunter willingly gave up the laptop and its contents, despite being contacted on multiple occasions to pick it up. It was not “stolen” or “hacked”. //

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13 hours ago
I continue to see leftists pretend to not understand that "hacking" into someone's personal accounts means [at the least] electronic B&E. Meanwhile, when you ABANDON your laptop and its drives full of info - you have literally given it away.

I can forgive the senile commies that never learned cp/m, but there is no way on earth the younger commies don't know the difference.

And, we've been over the whole DOXXING mess ad nauseam. It's not complicated. (and no, if we publish your OFFICE address and numbers and titles, found on your company site, it's not Doxxing). //

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He should be banned for having the last name Klippenstein. I can't hardly read it without laughing. Sounds like a 1930s monster movie. Run! It's the Klippenstein monster!

That's the thing with the left. Everything they want is a Dollar Store moral equivalent of something decent and good.

Nature miscarries babies, so abortion is not wrong. (Intent of the mother is ignored)

A male athlete gussied up as a woman takes estrogen, so he doesn't have an advantage. (physical reality is ignored)

If abortion is wrong, so is the death penalty. (guilt or innocence of the one being killed is ignored)

A current day border crosser here is the same as a refugee from civil warin Africa or Asia. ( the fact none of our southern neighbors are at war is ignored)

Israeli apartheid is no different than South Africa's. (The role the two major world religions involved and who is the aggressor are ignored).

Etc.

now Biden-Harris Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo seems to have doubled down on the incendiary language in a particularly vile comment.

Doocy had asked them how many assassination attempts it was going to take before they stopped calling Trump a "threat." He was trying to get them to dial things back. Well, the word Raimondo picked was far worse. She said, "Let's extinguish him for good."

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Harris-Biden Commerce Secretary @GinaRaimondo calls for President Trump to be "extinguished for good."

Ten days ago, a deranged Harris supporter tried to assassinate President Trump.

Yet, Democrat lunatics continue to spew this dangerous rhetoric.

9:24 AM · Sep 25, 2024

Yikes. These people have no conscience or sense at all. How does she think that reads to a crazy leftist? But they don't care, all they care about is running him under and winning. They will say or do anything.

This has to stop. Members of Congress and all responsible people need to condemn this. //

This is the same person who beclowned herself when she was asked about the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) having to correct the false information they had put out about 800,000 jobs being created.

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Harris-Biden Commerce Sec. Gina Raimondo says she doesn't believe new government data that shows almost a million of the jobs the Harris-Biden admin claimed to have "created" don't actually exist.

"I'm not familiar with that."

5:44 PM · Aug 21, 2024

She tried to attack Trump, but then was told it was a BLS correction, to which she responded, "I'm not familiar with that."

It was a nice moment and came across as pretty standard fare for a presidential campaign. It's certainly not the first time a nominee has walked into an establishment and paid for something. Trump has routinely bought food for people at campaign stops as well. Leave it to Democrats to try to ruin everything, though. //

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I’m reasonably sure that’s a federal crime

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The logic here is as stupid as it sounds. By giving the mother of three money, Trump supposedly broke federal laws surrounding vote buying. Of course, the woman never indicates that she is going to vote for the former president because he helped buy her groceries. //

Meanwhile, actual corruption and possible criminality by Democrats are ignored. It's mind-numbing.

As cool as it is to watch him produce his pieces, he's also got plenty to say. In an interview after the rally, he compared Trump to a firefighter:

"Your house is burning down, your children on the second floor, flames shooting off the back, screaming out the window. The guy across the street is a fireman, but you don't like his hairdo. You don't like his tan. You don't like what he tweets. That guy is going to come in and save your house from burning and save your children. Do you give a crap about his hair, his mean tweets or the tan that he has?"

"I don't think so. That's what people need to think about," he added.

On Wednesday, Cheney proved just how false that claim about being conservative was when she endorsed Kamala Harris during a speaking engagement at Duke University in the battleground state of North Carolina. //

Republicans rejected Cheney, they're not being influenced by her. Plus, it's funny that the Democrats who called her father a war monger are now embracing her just because she says bad things about Trump. But it shows you where the Democrats are now. They would of course throw her under the bus in a red hot minute if it helped them. //

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Kamala Harris is a radical liberal who would raise taxes, take away guns & health insurance, and explode the size and power of the federal gov’t. She wants to recreate America in the image of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle. We won’t give her the chance.
6:17 PM · Aug 11, 2020

It seems as though Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) knows no bounds. From things that can be classified as silly, like former First Lady Melania Trump never appearing on the cover of magazines like Vogue, to the extremely serious, like an assassination attempt. Closer to the serious end of the scale lands the folks at Arlington National Cemetery and their recent treatment of the 13 Gold Star families of service members killed in the Afghanistan withdrawal at Abbey Gate and the ceremony marking the third anniversary of that incident, with former President Donald Trump attending that ceremony.

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Liberals trending #WeRespectVets, when both Kamala Harris and Joe Biden didn’t bother to show up at Arlington National Cemetery is hypocrisy at its finest.

One man showed up at the request of the families, his name was Donald Trump.
11:44 AM · Aug 29, 2024

Per a Daily Caller exclusive report, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) ultimately ended up intervening so that Trump, who had been invited to attend the ceremony and laid a wreath for the service members, could get into Arlington National Cemetery. This part of the never-ending disrespect these families have received at the hands of the Biden-Harris federal government begins with the Cemetery informing the families that there was a specific time that the ceremony could be held, but that time was not convenient for all family members. They were also informed that Trump would not be able to join them at their loved ones's gravesites.

Darin Hoover and Kelly Barnett are the parents of SSGT Taylor Hoover. Hoover and Barnett contacted Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who, in turn, contacted Speaker Johnson. Johnson made a phone call, and what do you know, the situation changed. In addition to Johnson and McCaul, Reps. Brian Mast (R-FL) and Darrell Issa (R-CA) also stepped in to help the families to make sure the ceremony went off without a hitch.

But this is not the only roadblock that Arlington National Cemetery put up, a place whose very existence is to pay respect to those who have served. The Cemetery claimed that the families had stated they did not want any media, photography, or videography at the gravesites. That, however, was not the case. The families had stated that media designated by Trump's team was acceptable. However, Arlington kept interfering in the process.

"Why is Trump winning?" Maher asked talking about the latest NY Times poll. "Trump was beating him rather soundly. It was quite a warning light. 48 to 43. Also winning way more among women. Winning outright Latinos. What do you attribute that to?"

"I don't know," De Niro whined. "I just don't want to feel the way I did after the election in 19, 2016. Uh, where we couldn't believe that it happened."

There it is in a nutshell: me, me, me, feel, feel, feel.

It isn't about reality, it's just about how the talking points from the media make him feel and that's bad. That's how out of touch some of these folks in the bubble of leftist celebrity are. //

Watch De Niro do the "it's different when we do it" move when it comes to questions about Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul deploying the National Guard to the subways to search people's bags before they get on to allegedly reduce crime. Maher obviously has concerns about the infringement of freedoms, as he should. But De Niro has no idea because it doesn't concern Trump, and he's not upset with Hochul But if Trump did it, that would be different, "it would be for another reason."

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Maher: "But I do see that the Governor of NY is putting the National guard in the subway? As a New Yorker what do you think of that? What would they say if he [Trump] did it?
De Niro: "Well if he did it, it's for another reason."
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