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For @PntyRich

I'm using you in order to drive home the point that people refuse to understand what's happening and what kind of person @realDonaldTrump is.

What you've heard all your adult life is irrelevant.

It has no bearing on today's circumstances.

Trump is accusing Obama of doing something that has never before happened in our country's history.

That MEANS something.

A knee-jerk reaction of "Nothing's gonna happen" is NOT critical thinking.

It means you aren't paying attention.

YOUR position is that a president can be entirely lawless but will never be held accountable.

What you're saying is that YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT OBAMA DID.

I personally know multiple people who left social media after a lawyer OPENLY threatened to sic the CIA on them.

Well, I know far more about the CIA than most members of the CIA.

So I told the guy to go ahead.

"When will I get another chance to trade body blows with the CIA?" I asked him.

(It's a paraphrase of a line from Miller's Crossing.)

This is the real thing. It's no time to be the usual world-weary, sophisticated, know-it-all character.

I never ASKED YOU what you think will happen.

You volunteered it.

And your opinion is not something I care about, because you're just spooling out a talking point designed to make you feel superior.

Very few people know what I know.

From firsthand experience.

The CIA is not what you think it is.

It never has been. You wouldn't believe the incredible, endless string of blunders.

The same with the FBI.

It goes without saying that the actual AGENTS are among the best in the world.

But the LEADERSHIP and CULTURE are disastrous.

The two most destructive spies in American history were CIA and FBI respectively.

Aldrich Ames, CIA.

Champion alcoholic and lover of materialist crap.

Robert P. Hanssen, FBI.

The most astonishing, careless sex addict who ever lived.

These two men were BUFFOONS.

And together they virtually destroyed everything our intelligence agencies had accomplished in the postwar period.

There's a line in the brilliant movie Breach, about Hanssen.

Eric O’Neill was the FBI "ghost"--a professional surveillance officer--assigned to expose Hanssen.

It was very stressful.

Here's what his supervisor Special Agent Kate ­Alleman told him when the going got rough.

"You need to understand that the hardest thing all of us here had to accept was that because of Hanssen, our entire careers were a waste of time. We may as well have all stayed home instead of coming to work."

OBAMA DID FAR WORSE THAN AMES AND HANSSEN COMBINED.

So don't give me this, "Nothin's gonna happen."

It's vacuous.

Superficial.

Utterly ignorant.

And ARROGANT.

You're telling me that you know more about this than Trump does.

Okay: PROVE IT.

THREE TIMES during his FBI interview, @GenFlynn looked out the window and said, "What a beautiful black sky."

It made the FBI nervous.

Flynn was relaxed and jocular.

I have no idea what happened.

But Flynn has DECADES of experience in spooking.

I've heard people say that the FBI had to take Flynn out because he "would've discovered" that Trump was being illegally surveilled.

Kids, FLYNN KNEW IT BEFORE TRUMP WAS SWORN IN.

Draw your own conclusions.

I have.

Everything we're learning is a direct result of the Flynn case.

Without the Flynn case, Trump wouldn't have the goods on Obama.

What does Trump keep saying?

"I'm going to make sure this never happens again."

Are you telling me he's BLUFFING?

How could you possibly believe that?

So don't tell me about your skepticism. I'm not asking you for your opinion. I'm not looking for arguments or debates.

If you think nothing's going to happen, it means you have no idea what Obama did.

And if that's the case, your opinion is not worthwhile to me.

Pardon my bluntness, but I can't stand defeatism masquerading as realism.

I'M THE REALIST.

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