During a news conference on NBC this week, President Trump expressed his admiration for General Flynn and his anger about Flynn’s persecution. Trump is a truthful man in that he calls things as he sees them, says Brad Johnson, retired CIA Officer and President of Americans for Intelligence Reform. Trump did not know just how deep that swamp is when he got into office. He thought he could win people over and work together; instead he has seen the Intelligence Community willing to lie and break the law to bring him down. U.S. Attorney Barr, says Johnson, is the best thing to happen to the IC in years.
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Brad Johnson it is May the eighth of
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2020 President Trump spoke on TV last
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night about the general Flynn case love
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to hear your analysis on that yes he was
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he’s been speaking out about it and and
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this morning he was on Fox & Friends
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which is a show that he likes and is
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often especially when he was a candidate
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for president would speak there every
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Monday I believe it was and he was on
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this morning again that’s kind of one of
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his go-to news programs so he was on
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there for about an hour and there were a
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number of interesting things that came
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out of it now the basis of this of
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course is that the prosecutors dropped
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the charges against general Flynn who
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had been president Trump’s national
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security adviser initially they had to
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get rid of him because the now by giving
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him I’m talking about the Democrats had
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to get rid of him because he would have
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been in a position to completely blow up
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and not allow this Russia hoax thing to
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go forward so they had to get rid of him
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and so what they did this was instigated
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actually interestingly enough it was
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kicked off by President Obama passing
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the word to Sally Yates who then brought
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this up with Comey
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or with that was done with Comey and
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then it was passed down the line and the
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man that kind of turned all this around
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even though Flynn had basically been
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cleared it was all sort of turned around
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and put back on track for prosecution by
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Peter Straub the then a head of the FBI
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counterintelligence division their
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intelligence division within the within
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the FBI so that was what what happened
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that he was forced into a deal and we
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all famously heard the the the judge
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didn’t like this plea deal because he
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thought he was going to be putting an
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innocent man in jail so now that he’s
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been cleared the whole thing was dropped
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the judge is definitely going to sign
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this order it’s going it’s over and what
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President Trump is said is great you
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know an innocent man is finally being
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cleared now out of all of that now a
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couple of things observations about
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President Trump I’m not suggesting
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President Trump is simple in how he
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views things but he’s a simple man in
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the way he presents them
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basically even though the left accuses
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him lying and all this sort of stuff
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President Trump says the truth as he
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sees it all the time and that’s one of
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the reasons he’s so popular and then he
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can fill stadiums with forty and fifty
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and sixty thousand people is because he
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just gets up there and says it as he
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sees it and that sort of sort of
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truthful look at things is very fresh
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and interesting for people so they like
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it now it’s the same thing when he’s
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talking to the press that’s just how he
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is and now the press is always twisting
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and turning and trying to present it is
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that he lies and done it it up but the
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president doesn’t lie now I’m not as I
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said I’m not suggesting he can’t be
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tricky on this stuff because well he’ll
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say something again that he knows his
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true or believes to be true that’s very
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provocative to the mainstream media and
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then over here he’ll quietly accomplish
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a lot of the stuff that he wants to do
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under the cover provided by this other
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thing so I’m not suggesting there’s not
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no manipulation and and then he’s not
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outsmarting the press on a daily basis
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because he is but he’s a truthful guy
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now the reason I’m I played all of that
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out is because part of what he said this
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morning on the on the press was he said
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I had no idea that this swamp was this
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way I didn’t realize that was all these
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people that are there and I didn’t know
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how deep the swamp was and I’m going to
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drain the swamp now that is a absolutely
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pivotal change up till now and I’ve said
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this a number of times the president has
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always come into this thinking that he
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was going to win people over and that
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the Democrats once they saw he was
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trying to do the best thing for the
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country would you know at least kind of
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drop their opposition and you know and
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be willing to work with him and that the
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the never Trump errs within the
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Republican Party would be won over and
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the mainstream media would see this and
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be won over and at least kind of treat
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him fairly he’s thought that all along
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now season Swamper what dweller like
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myself looked at that from the very
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beginning as did
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many people and said there’s zero chance
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of that happening that’s naive and that
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was naive on the part of the president
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well-intentioned
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good person viewing the world as he
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thought it would be and absolutely
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freakin wrong that’s been proven to him
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now and so that is an absolutely
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fundamental pivotal change in how the
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president is going to go forward from
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here now he finally recognizes that the
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intelligence community as a whole the
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leadership of these places are dead set
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against him and they will lie cheat and
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steal risk going to prison all of these
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things we see them doing they will
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absolutely break the law to get it and
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that you just cannot allow it the
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president sees that for what it is he
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has a good Attorney General and bar
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which by the way you know if everyone
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recalls who picked us Attorney General
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Barr and that was Trump he was the guy
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that picked bar and bar has been the
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greatest thing to happen the United
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States since the election of Trump and
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these other people that are around Trump
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and a lot of these positions were not
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picked by Trump he was trusting other
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people to pick them that trust I think
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has now been dissolved Trump is going to
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take a much more proactive stance in
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this he’s going to start replacing these
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leadership guys that he has now finally
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figured out a part of the swamp screwing
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everything up and doing some illegal
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activity along the way to get their
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political goals done so this is
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fundamentally important and I would say
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keep your eyes peeled now because I
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would say if you’re if you’re a liberal
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activist in the federal government
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fasten your seat belt because it’s going
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to be a rough ride
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you
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