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Amazing, in-depth reporting by @nahaltoosi on the chaotic early days of Trump’s foreign policy. Former national security officials detail the climate of fear, incompetence, & 'hostility to facts' in a Trump White House unprepared to run the world.
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Soon after the inauguration, Trump appointee Robin Townley, a former Marine intel officer, took over the Africa directorate and began reading NSC staff's top-secret material. Within days, Townley was out because he lacked proper security clearance.
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On the first full business day of the Trump admin, a batch of draft executive orders [including the travel ban] landed in the inboxes of several NSC career staffers. “These [EO's] were, like, written in crayon, like The Heritage Foundation intern just came up with them.”
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During the brief Flynn era, NSC staff were shocked when 2 associates of Don Jr showed up at NSC offices with a 10-point plan on how the US could turn Venezuelan President Maduro into a US stooge. The entire pitch was a pretext for this great business opportunity for them.
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I can only imagine, @nahaltoosi –– and it terrifies me.
Gorka, a fugitive from Hungarian police, said things like, "If you look at what Napoleon did," and we’d all be like, "I don’t even know how to respond to that." Asked for comment, Gorka told a reporter, “Take a long run off a short pier, you utter hack.”
