DHS official says he was told to stop providing intel on Russian attacks as it 'made President [Trump] look bad'

[xeni]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/09/dhs-official-says-he-was-told.html

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[dfaris]

But everything makes Trump look bad.

[LDoBe]

I didn’t know it was DHS’s job to try to make the president look good.
I was under the impression DHS’s role is to violate everyone’s 4th amendment rights to try and pretend that they’re keeping us safe.

[Brainspore]

More accurately, Trump IS bad but blames everything except himself for making him look that way.

[yoyodyne]

It’s just, you know, light that makes him look bad.

[anon48584343]

@xeni

The official, Brian Murphy, said he believed the instruction he received from acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf would jeopardize national security.

So, a trump loyalty test.

[gracchus]

@LDoBe

I didn’t know it was DHS’s job to try to make the president look good.

We shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves. Until the other day we didn’t know it was the Justice Dept’s job to be the president’s personal lawyer.

[anon59592690]

I was going to say “What doesn’t?”

[anon48584343]

Adam Schiff gets busy:

https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1054

[jerwin]

@LDoBe

I didn’t know it was DHS’s job to try to make the president look good.

Apparently, it’s the DoJ’s job to defend Trumps right to disparage E Jean Carroll, so why not?

[generic_name]

All the different reports we see every day that clearly expose Trump as a craven corrupt fool . . always remember that the loyal Fox News viewer sees very little of that, or if they see any of it they also get a dose of excuses and wild conspiracy to explain it all away, followed by breathless sycophantic praise of the great job he’s doing.

[anon48584343]

There is no c, n or n in rural.

[jandrese]

This has me wondering what 2021 will be like if Trump manages to get re-elected (although almost certainly losing the popular vote again) but the Senate is flipped and Democrats retain control of the House. The most epic impeachment hearing of all time. The list of crimes is so long it would be hard to cover them all.

[StatusQuo]

[Garymon]

@jandrese

The list of crimes is so long it would be hard to cover them all.

Wakko could songify the list of crimes.

[anon59592690]

[Melizmatic]

That’s Yacko.

Wakko did the states.

[anon59592690]

Oh yeah.

[DukeTrout]

@xeni

On July 8, Murphy said that acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told him that an “intelligence notification” regarding Russian disinformation efforts should be “held” because it was unflattering to Trump, who has long derided Russian interference as a “hoax” that was concocted by his opponents to delegitimize his victory in 2016.

Same guy:

Acting DHS Secretary says elected leaders in Portland ‘played partisan...

If cognitive dissonance released radiation, this guy’s face would have melted already.

[cannibalpeas]

Oooh! 5% of me thinks that would almost be worth it! But then we’d end up with fucking Pence which would only cement the end of the great experiment.