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Home Front: Politix
Former Klingon Master: Trump's comments on Charlottesville are 'a national disgrace'
2017-08-17
[Wash Examiner] Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Trump for his comments Tuesday about the violence in Charlottesville, Va., calling them "a national disgrace" and warning the president is putting the country's national security and "our collective futures at grave risk."

"Mr. Trump's words, and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace, and all Americans of conscience need to repudiate his ugly and dangerous comments," Brennan said in a note sent to CNN's Wolf Blitzer, which he read on air Wednesday. "If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world.

"By his words and his actions, Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk," Brennan added.

Brennan, who was CIA director during the Obama administration, also called Trump's comments "despicable."
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  Sure were more than a 100 tiki torches. Question is, how many Nazis? 100? That has to be less than 10%.
Posted by: KBK   2017-08-17 16:51  

#19  Only 100 Nazi protesters? Few of these accounts mention much about the role of AntiFa in their reporting. The lame stream media who report (or distort if you will) and amplify these events by putting them in the echo chamber to bounce around for awhile have a role in causing this riots. The MSM still have big megaphones. The small splinter groups who perpetuate the violence, say to themselves "That was successful, look how much publicity we got." Let's do it again. And thus, in a way, the media causes these events to happen again and again.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-17 15:43  

#18  I didn't see anything in Trump's comments that could be construed as a "national disgrace."

A hundred or so neo-Nazis-- that's 100 people out of America's population of over 300,000,000-- put on a peaceful demonstration, and our entire political class goes ballistic? I smell a rat...
Posted by: Dave D.   2017-08-17 12:08  

#17  Classic projection. Brennan is the 'national disgrace.'
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-17 11:25  

#16  The questions about paid agitators and Kessler's involvement with Obama and the Occupy movement will NOT be investigated by MSM. They will not even be mentioned. Therefore, if anyone raises these questions in polite society they will be ridiculed as kooky conspiracy theories of the alt right. That's what they do with the Seth Rich story. That's how it works.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-08-17 11:15  

#15  The PC police got all over Trump's case because he told the truth. That tells me something. The focus of the Charlottesville story should not even be Trump. In fact, Trump should not even be a part of the story. It's all about commies and nazis doing what commies and nazis do and the police standing down to let it happen. For anyone to say any differently is a damn lie and I'm getting really sick and tired of all the lies.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-08-17 11:04  

#14  What I like about Trump, is he fights.

He said what was true that day and the swamp took this as the opportunity to pile on him, because no one will defend nazis.

But we can't spare this man. He fights.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-08-17 10:32  

#13  I fail to see what was despicable in Trump's comments -

I completely agree with President Trump's comments, and admire him for originally standing up to the mob. Mr. Brennan is despicable.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-08-17 10:27  

#12  Hmmmmm....Communists and Nazis fighting in the streets while an ineffectual central government simply marks time, along with local authorities supporting one of the groups whose aim is to take down that national government. I've seen this movie before. It didn't end well for the audience.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-08-17 10:20  

#11  Lone Ranger- Nice column. However, it's Charlottesville, not Charlotte. May want to fix that typo to avoid any potential confusion. Godspeed.
Posted by: Eltoroverde   2017-08-17 09:56  

#10  Excellent points, Lone Ranger.
Posted by: Frank G on the Road   2017-08-17 09:26  

#9  Time to report a huge, large-scale hate crime.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-17 07:38  

#8   A Re-Visit of Why the left and the Beltway Party hates Trump.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-17 07:04  

#7  I await with anticipation similar denunciations of black, hispanic, etc supremacists.

What? you tell me they don't have a very good case. That can't be true.

And I'll note the irony of Germany eliminating the Jews who were instremental in Germany's scientific and technological success.

Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-08-17 06:10  

#6  Link to RANGER's #4. Worthy of a reading.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-17 05:03  

#5  There are millions of Muslims in USA, and Trump is supposed to pee his pants over a few hundred Nazis?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-17 04:45  

#4  Here is my take on Trump's debacle:

http://defendinplace.blogspot.com/2017/08/how-president-trump-should-have-handled.html?spref=tw
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2017-08-17 03:30  

#3  To think, this guy was in Intelligence.
Posted by: newc   2017-08-17 02:36  

#2  In 1976, he voted for Communist Party USA candidate Gus Hall in the presidential election.

The Disposition Matrix, informally known as a kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing, rendering, or killing suspected enemies of the United States federal government.[1] Developed by the Obama administration beginning in 2010, the "Disposition Matrix" goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy.[1] The process determining criteria for killing is not public and was heavily shaped by National Counterterrorism Director and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John O. Brennan.[2]

Wikipedia.org
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196   2017-08-17 01:24  

#1  I fail to see what was despicable in Trump's comments - multiple parties behaved badly and information was not yet complete enough to say more.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-08-17 01:01  

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