Scoop: Trump's post-election execution list

By artappraiser on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 8:41pm |

By Jonathan Swan & Alayna Treene @ Axios.com, Oct. 25

If President Trump wins re-election, he'll move to immediately fire FBI Director Christopher Wray and also expects to replace CIA Director Gina Haspel and Defense Secretary Mark Esper, two people who've discussed these officials' fates with the president tell Axios.

The big picture: The list of planned replacements is much longer, but these are Trump's priorities, starting with Wray.

Wray and Haspel are despised and distrusted almost universally in Trump's inner circle. He would have fired both already, one official said, if not for the political headaches of acting before Nov. 3. [....]

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https://www.axios.com/trump-firing-wray-haspel-esper-088cbd70-3524-4625-91f1-dbc985767c71.html

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A senior FBI official tells Axios: "Major law enforcement associations representing current and former FBI agents as well as police and sheriff's departments across the country have consistently expressed their full support of Director Wray's leadership of the Bureau."

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 8:46pm

Dag leaked this plan in 2017:

President Trump has plans to fire 42,000 FBI agents. He recently tweeted "the FBI is in tatters." He will assign Kellyanne Conway, recently appointed as Opioid Czar, as Acting FBI director, with the power to temporarily appoint Trump campaign hacks, toadies, Boogaloo Bois and alt-right gang members as agents. Background checks will be done by Jared and Mark Meadows.

Trump will issue an executive order afterwards that the sole mission of the FBI will be to imprison Hillary Clinton.

The numbers are scaled down, this is, however, perhaps Trump's only actual plan that he ever had beyond leading the 24 hour news cycle every day.

by NCD on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 9:17pm

wow you called it, NCD, it's like you know him better than Melania does, maybe only Ivanka knows him better.

Bigger picture, an old lady like me is like: how did we ever get to a place where the FBI is defended by the left?

by artappraiser on Sun, 10/25/2020 - 11:57pm

you know it just hit me that Joe meant people like them and like over at the Pentagon when he said this.

But what if he would win legit? Everybody not willing to pretend they are executing the madcap executive order of the day by "l'etat c'est moi", leaves the country or goes on minimum state income? We'd truly be in "but the emperor has no clothes!" territory. Wonder how long someone like Barr would last pandering, clearly he has right-wing ambitions for the country but getting there via a nut case is in no way assured. (What is Mr. Barr's real angle anyways, where does he think he's going with this gig so late in the game? Enquiring minds want to know. Is he planning to give up the lawyering and team up with Pence and do podcasts?)

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 12:20am

Comes to mind this is a good example of what kind of stable genius ideas would be coming out of a Trump second administration after all the purging is done:

Wait what? https://t.co/DkWAbMRtPf pic.twitter.com/z5AOvo02hz
— David Enrich (@davidenrich) October 25, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 1:15am

Retweeted by horror novelist Stephen King after being tweeted to Sarah Cooper

trump releases more footage from his 60 Minutes interview... pic.twitter.com/OH0EgUgjex
— ‏ًً (@someknew) October 24, 2020

NCD will probably also get a kick of the video in the parent tweet by Sarah, a sort of "Deep State" float, as it were, spotted on the road. Wondering why Stephen didn't chose to retweet that one as well? Maybe even too scary for him?

This is like if your mental growth was stunted in high school when a homecoming float on the back of a truck got you the girl and so you spent the rest of your life treating your problems with homecoming floats pic.twitter.com/pK8ld6IOkh
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) October 24, 2020

by artappraiser on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 3:50am

Prime Minister of The Netherlands

President Erdogan’s words addressing President @EmmanuelMacron are unacceptable. The Netherlands stands firmly with France and for the collective values of the European Union. For the freedom of speech and against extremism and radicalism.
— Mark Rutte (@MinPres) October 26, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 10/28/2020 - 5:00pm

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