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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/after-a-congressional-briefing-on-election-threats-trump-soured-on-acting-spy-chief/2020/02/20/1ed2b4ec-53f1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

[quote][b]Trump erupted at his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, in the Oval Office last week over what he perceived as disloyalty by Maguire’s staff,[/b] ruining his chances of becoming the permanent intelligence chief, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump announced on Wednesday that he was replacing Maguire with a vocal Trump loyalist, Richard Grenell, who is the U.S. ambassador to Germany.

[b]Maguire had been considered a leading candidate to be nominated for the DNI post, White House aides had said.[/b] But[b] Trump’s opinion shifted last week, after he heard from a GOP ally that the intelligence official in charge of election security[/b], who works for Maguire[b], gave a classified briefing last Thursday to the House Intelligence Committee[/b] on 2020 election security.

[b]The president was furious with Maguire and blamed him for the alleged transgression[/b] involving Pierson when the two met the next day.

“There was a dressing down” of Maguire, saidone individual, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. “That was the catalyst” that led to the sidelining Maguire in favor of Grenell, the person said.[/quote]

This is so crazy. GOP and Trump are destroying the check and balance. We never thought this would happen in America. Trump controls every information that gets out of the government and disseminates misinformation to help himself politically. Until now, we had only seen this in autocratic countries like Russia or North Korea. How did we slid this far back?[/quote]

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