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Chuck DarwinTwo prominent Republican senators have split with President Trump over his decisionto sever government security for former officials who are in Iran’s crosshairs. Last week, Trump, 78, cut off funding for security for former Secretary of State Mike <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a>, ex-National Security Adviser John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bolton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bolton</a> and others. Sens. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lindsey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lindsey</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Graham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Graham</a> of South Carolina and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tom</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cotton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cotton</a> of Arkansas, both outspoken GOP backers of Trump, are now encouraging the president to reevaluate that move.“If people are going to work for the president now on Iran or China or North Korea or the Mexican drug cartels, they might hesitate to do so” because of the security withdrawal, Cotton warned <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/26/us-news/tom-cotton-and-lindsey-graham-break-with-trump-on-nixing-security-for-john-bolton-mike-pompeo/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nypost.com/2025/01/26/us-news/tom-cotton-and-lindsey-graham-break-with-trump-on-nixing-security-for-john-bolton-mike-pompeo/</a>

Chuck DarwinTrump confirmed Friday he stripped security protections from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, the latest in a pattern of retaliation against political adversaries.🔥Why it matters: All of Trump's targets have received death threats during a time of heightened political violence.♦️<a href="https://c.im/tags/Anthony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anthony</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fauci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fauci</a>The former NIAID director lost his protection late Thursday night.Fauci has repeatedly been forthright about death threats against himself and his family. He's now hired his own security detail, per the New York Times. "You can't have a security detail for the rest of your life because you worked for government," Trump said on Fox News on Friday, when asked about Fauci. Between the lines: Former President Biden issued a preemptive pardon for Fauci on his last day in office, granting him broad immunity before Trump's term began.Fauci faced repeated political attacks from Trump and other Republicans over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.♦️<a href="https://c.im/tags/John" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#John</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bolton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bolton</a>Trump's former national security adviser has faced death threats from Iran after being a fierce critic of the regime. In 2022 an Iranian national was charged in connection with a plot to assassinate Bolton."This is a matter that people should take seriously," Bolton told CNN's Jake Tapper. Context: Bolton was vocal in his criticism of Trump after working with him during his first term and ahead of his new administration."It's certainly a downer for expressing your opposition to Donald Trump," Bolton said on CNN.♦️<a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a>Trump's former secretary of state, like Bolton, faced threats from Iran, multiple outlets reported.Pompeo has criticized Trump on fiscal and foreign policy and was not invited to join his second administration. However, Pompeo spent Trump's first week in office celebrating his win, Cabinet confirmations, and early executive orders.🔸Zoom in: Pompeo's top aide <a href="https://c.im/tags/Brian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Brian</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hook</a> also lost his security, per the reports. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-fauci-bolton-pompeo-security-tracker" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-fauci-bolton-pompeo-security-tracker</a>

Chuck DarwinOthers in the Trump inner circle who made their fortunes via privately held ventures include treasury secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Steven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steven</a> T. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mnuchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mnuchin</a>, who got a great deal during the financial crisis on IndyMac, a mortgage lending bank, thanks to our government’s penchant for the socialization of risk and privatization of profit when entities considered “too big to fail” go into a state of distress. Mnuchin and his fellow investors, a group that included liberal donor and hedge-fund honcho George Soros, changed the company name to <a href="https://c.im/tags/OneWest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OneWest</a> and began to aggressively foreclose on homeowners. The bank earned Mnuchin and his partners a profit of $1.6 billion in its first year of operation, even as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was preparing to take a hit of nearly $11 billion “on bad loans that the Pasadena institution made before it was sold last March and renamed OneWest Bank,” according to E. Scott Reckard of the Los Angeles Times.Then there’s commerce secretary <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wilbur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilbur</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ross" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ross</a>, worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes, who started a second career in 2000 with the creation of his eponymous investment company, which he later sold to Invesco for a reported $375 million. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Cordish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cordish</a>, special assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, is a scion of the family that owns privately held Cordish Companies, involved in gaming and entertainment. He’s said to be tight with Jared Kushner. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sonny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sonny</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Perdue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perdue</a>, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, founded the private company Perdue Inc., a trucking outfit, with his wife, Mary, who was reported in 2005 to be the company’s sole shareholder. (An official at Perdue Inc. declined to confirm to The Baffler whether this is still the case.)And, while not a rich guy himself, CIA director <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mike</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> founded a private company called <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Thayer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Aerospace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Aerospace</a> in the late 1990s with help from Koch Venture Capital, an arm of Koch Industries. A Pompeo aide told the Washington Post that the Koch investment amounted to only 2 percent, but there’s no way to really know, since the transaction took place between two privately held companies. He later became president of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sentry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sentry</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/International" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#International</a>, another private company, before his 2010 run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, again with an assist from the Koch brothers. He’s also a climate-change denier—an appealing trait in a public official if you’re a fossil fuels magnate looking to buy one

stefania maurizisono molto preoccupata che <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> possa riportare in ballo un estremista come <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> che ha pianificato di ammazzare un giornalista solo per quello che aveva pubblicato [ARCHIVIO]<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALMdPZZrnPDHCN1Jgr5u2Vj02_oHIwjhtz95t9KSSYFmJCiHcK5-9Qzf9eMXmoUAEMVJfbm2WVD5ol9yNmdCX47BwYYwJ-OTfuwdNnYOjAWTnVGeP3-QU2LXdEMOsw2wJTregdbahwqAFp0wRjbwuRqHyQQ902mYA6Haxudfitvo&guccounter=2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/kidnapping-assassination-and-a-london-shoot-out-inside-the-ci-as-secret-war-plans-against-wiki-leaks-090057786.html?guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALMdPZZrnPDHCN1Jgr5u2Vj02_oHIwjhtz95t9KSSYFmJCiHcK5-9Qzf9eMXmoUAEMVJfbm2WVD5ol9yNmdCX47BwYYwJ-OTfuwdNnYOjAWTnVGeP3-QU2LXdEMOsw2wJTregdbahwqAFp0wRjbwuRqHyQQ902mYA6Haxudfitvo&guccounter=2</a>

T_XNow on 13 April 2017 <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CIA</a> director Mike <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> declared <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Wikileaks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikileaks</a> as a "hostile intelligence service." This made me wonder: What if military and intelligence agencies were so secretive, powerful and separated that they don't quite fit into the basic the executive pillar? Sure, (usually) the press, politicians and laws are supposed to check them. But due to their structure and power these days this is maybe not sufficiently possible anymore? 3/

Mina HanseHate to agree with Mike <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a>, but he's absolutely right. "If Ukraine loses, the cost to America will be far greater than the aid we have given Ukraine.The least costly way to move forward is to provide Ukraine with the weapons needed to win and end the war."- Mike Pompeo<a href="https://nitter.net/mikepompeo/status/1734270635482681359" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nitter.net/mikepompeo/status/1734270635482681359</a><a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://nafo.uk/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a>

LaffyAll that dieting for nothing? 👋🏼 “Former Secretary of State Mike <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> on Friday evening said he was opting out of the #2024 presidential race, putting to rest speculation that he would challenge his ex-boss, Trump.”<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3951500-pompeo-wont-run-for-president-in-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3951500-pompeo-wont-run-for-president-in-2024/</a>

Heidi Li FeldmanNot only is the front-runner for the Republican nomination for president criminally indicted, most of the other contenders are disrespecting the indictment. The Republican Party is a cultish criminal organization. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indictment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indictment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeSantis</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Haley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Haley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a>

Mark Copelovitch<a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@georgetakei</a> The thing to remember about Mike <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> is that he is an untruthful, fundamentally unserious person, with terrible ideas about foreign policy, who weakened and embarrassed the State Department, and who was the worst Secretary of State in US history:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109813534768534846" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@mcopelov/109813534768534846</a>

Bohemian Peasant<a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@w7voa</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> supported and promoted an <a href="https://mas.to/tags/unethical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unethical</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/corrupt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corrupt</a> administration. Hopefully he will soon disappear into obscurity and irrelevance.

Jennifer CohnJan 6 was largely a Christian nationalist assault, Mike Pompeo told the committee that he met “with a group of pastors who were in town” on January 6th, and yet January6thCmte asked no follow up questions about that meeting?! <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NAR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NAR</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianNationalism</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/January6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#January6</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Pompeo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pompeo</a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/dominionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dominionism</a> Thread: <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606534526142144514.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1606534526142144514.html</a>

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