{"id":53918,"date":"2024-02-27T10:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53918"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T15:03:53","slug":"that-ship-already-sailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=53918","title":{"rendered":"That Ship Already Sailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/02\/26\/intel-community-concerned-donald-trump-2024-election-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about some concerns in the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The intelligence community is warning that key agencies may be politicized under a second Trump administration as the 2024 election approaches after it tried to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story and pushed a now-debunked dossier about the former president, Politico reported on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Former President Donald Trump could politicize the intelligence community through who he appoints and removes as well as demanding adherence to his agenda, the 18 former Trump officials and analysts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/26\/trump-intelligence-agency-national-security-00142968?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=48f70e21-8abc-41d5-acea-45864cc07a88&amp;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0to Politico.\u00a0The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/10\/11\/steele-dossier-money-fbi-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FBI<\/a>\u00a0welcomed the now-discredited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/10\/18\/danchenko-acquitted-lying-fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steele Dossier<\/a>\u00a0alleging Trump had ties to Russia and 51 former intelligence officials signed onto a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/12\/12\/architects-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-urge-congress-expand-domestic-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a>\u00a0saying Hunter Biden\u2019s now-authenticated laptop was Russian disinformation shortly before the 2020 presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think a more accurate story would be that the intelligence community is concerned that a second term of President Trump might force them to be neutral and obey the Constitution. He might also hold them accountable for the times they broke the law. I suspect he might even change the personnel to make the agencies politically neutral. Oh horrors.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>However, Trump\u2019s campaign cited the examples of the Steele Dossier and Hunter Biden laptop letter among examples of intelligence community weaponization against the former president.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cPresident Trump has been under assault ever since he announced his campaign in 2016,\u201d Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told the DCNF. \u201cFrom spying on his campaign, Russiagate, the Russia collusion hoax, the debunked Steele dossier, and the 51 intelligence officials wrongly ignoring Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop from Hell, the establishment has been trying to meddle in elections because they simply can\u2019t stand voters choosing a candidate who puts America First.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Trump is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/president\/general\/2024\/trump-vs-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">currently leading<\/a>\u00a0Biden by 2.1 points in a RealClearPolitics national average of polls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The FBI insisted that the intelligence community incorporate the Steele Dossier in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intelligence.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/Report_Volume4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>\u00a0of foreign meddling in the 2016 election, according to Politico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/02\/21\/jim-jordan-rips-doj-biden-fbi-informant-christopher-steele\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hinted<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday that the Department of Justice is operating under a double standard after it indicted an FBI informant who allegedly provided false evidence of corruption involving Biden, while letting Christopher Steele, a former operative of the Secret Intelligence Service, off the hook for his dossier that was used to try and remove Trump from office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The FBI \u201cdug their own grave\u201d by promoting the Steele Dossier,\u00a0one former intelligence official told Politico.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I pray for an honest election without interference from the intelligence community or the deep state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, The Daily Caller posted an article about some concerns in the intelligence community. 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