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Italiano1976 122 points ago +125 / -3

The 2018 EO was the biggest stab in the back. It did nothing.

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Jabron661 63 points ago +64 / -1

I am thinking that this was going to be the plan, but whoever was working with Trump to enact it backed out and called it off. The deep state probably cut the legs out from under who ever was working with or for Trump, and without people in the right places, the plan never got off the ground.

There were probably things done and threats made that scared off whoever was going to be involved. Much like the mafia or any organized crime group, they don't have to go out and kill and burn in public, the control is done behind closed doors, the threats are done in private, and people are "given offers they can't refuse", so they bail or even turn coat and accept whatever bribe they were offered.

Think about the supreme court of all places, you know there was surely some influence on them to act the way they did, with such outright cowardice.

Trump is a strong man, a leader, but when you are in an environment as swampy and dangerous as Washington DC, he was just not connected enough.

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zedrexvsyrex 32 points ago +33 / -1

The EO flopped because the CIA refused to let it get released on time. These people do literally no goodnfor the country and literally nothing to increase national security. They didn’t even want to provide intelligence to the president of the US, which is their fucking job. And then they got out and enact policies on their own via taxpayer dime half the time, despite them not being allowed to. What a fucking joke of an agency. They even got shafted by Iran and China because they had unsecured networks they were using like a bunch of retards. A fucking needy soyboy coder in California could’ve done better. Fuck these guys, I could do their job better than they can with no experience.

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queazy 4 points ago +4 / -0

Source, or just conjecture? Sounds believable, he wouldn't have set up that in the first place just to then not use it.

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zedrexvsyrex 3 points ago +3 / -0

It was in the DNI Report that Ratcliffe gave. He said it himself. It’s common sense anyway, like I’m not even surprised. Here you go:

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/6d274110-a84b-4694-96cd-6a902207d2bd/note/733364cf-0afb-412d-a5b4-ab797a8ba154.#page=1

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Prudentwait 16 points ago +16 / -0

One man alone could not take on an entire bureaucracy. I love President Trump, but there's no doubt he trusted people he shouldn't have and empowered the people who hate him when he didn't need to. This needs to be a learning experience.

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HiddenDekuScrub 12 points ago +12 / -0

I suspect this happened back on 1/6.

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Skippy737 13 points ago +13 / -0

Trump shouldve inacted it by himself, he needed noone to sign off onnit. Even if someone betrayed him, his gut wouldve said, sign it and do martial law and let the military figure it the fuck out. What happened to the military monitoring the election in the white house on election night?

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NadlerShartWaddle 1 point ago +1 / -0

Still had to rely on the intelligence community not to bone you to pull that off.