{"id":96731,"date":"2018-03-17T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=96731"},"modified":"2018-03-17T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T21:36:47","slug":"ex-cia-chiefjohn-brennan-blows-all-8-gaskets-disrespects-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=96731","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Blows All 8 Gaskets, Publicly Disrespects POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Former CIA Director Brennan Brands Trump &#8216;Disgraced Demagogue&#8217; Over McCabe<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96732\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GetFile-1-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96732\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96732\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GetFile-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GetFile-1-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/GetFile-1-2-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Sandy Fitzgerald<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Former CIA Director John Brennan slammed President Donald Trump Saturday as a &#8220;disgraced demagogue&#8221; over the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just two days before he would have become eligible for retirement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history,&#8221; Brennan tweeted to Trump, while responding to a message the<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/974859881827258369\"><strong>\u00a0president posted\u00a0just after midnight.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will\u00a0 not destroy America&#8230;America will triumph over you,&#8221; Brennan, who served under former President Barack Obama added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will  not destroy America&#8230;America will triumph over you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKppoDbduj\">https:\/\/t.co\/uKppoDbduj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnBrennan\/status\/974978856997224448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/trump-mccabe-firing-democracy\/2018\/03\/17\/id\/849213\/\">McCabe was fired<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0over the FBI&#8217;s handling of the 2016 investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Trump accused both McCabe and former FBI Director James Comey, who was fired shortly after Trump took office.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions, in a statement made about the decision, said that the FBI expects all employees to &#8220;adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department said an internal investigation found McCabe had made unauthorized disclosures to the media, and was not honest &#8220;on multiple occasions&#8221; with the the DOJ&#8217;s inspector general.<\/p>\n<p>McCabe says he is the victim of a &#8220;war&#8221; the Trump administration has staged against the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe into Russian election meddling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am being singled out and treated this way because of the role I played, the actions I took, and the events I witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey,&#8221; McCabe said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, though, says McCabe and Comey protected Clinton from being prosecuted for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, and about over the actions of the private Clinton Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday was not the first time Brennan has attacked Trump. Earlier this month,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/john-brennan-donald-trump-unstable-criticism\/2018\/03\/02\/id\/846574\/\">the former CIA director told MSNBC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that the president is &#8220;unstable, inept, inexperienced, and unethical,&#8221; and warned that he is not able to handle international issues like the threat posed to the U.S. by Russia&#8217;s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea&#8217;s nuclear missile program.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/cia-brennan-trump-mccabe\/2018\/03\/17\/id\/849237\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/politics\/cia-brennan-trump-mccabe\/2018\/03\/17\/id\/849237\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA Director Brennan Brands Trump &#8216;Disgraced Demagogue&#8217; Over McCabe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}