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Signatories of the letter falsely suggested that the news story was part of a Russian disinformation campaign,
Trump's executive order said of "the former intelligence officials who engaged in misleading and inappropriate political coordination with the 2020 Biden presidential campaign."
The only reason why I still had a security clearance, as I have for the past number of years since I left government service, was for the benefit of the government, so that if the CIA or another government agency wanted to call me in to discuss a classified matter, they could do that,
Brennan saidHe misrepresented the facts in that executive order because it said that we had suggested that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation,
Brennan said on MSNBC Tuesday
There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this, he’s accusing me of, is a Russian plan,
Biden said during the debateAnd so it was really for the government’s benefit. It was to facilitate those classified discussions with myself, as well as with former directors, as well as other former members of the intelligence community that had those clearances."
He addedSo, again, this was just, you know, his effort to try to get back at those individuals who have criticized him openly and publicly in the past, and I think very legitimately,
he saidLots of reporting suggested that, this time around, Trump and his lawyers would avoid the sloppy legal work that plagued his first administration so they’d fare better in the courts,
Stern noted
This is poor, slipshod work,
Slate journalist and legal expert Mark Joseph Stern said of a number of the orders in a Bluesky post,The Gulf is also home to vibrant American fisheries teeming with snapper, shrimp, grouper, stone crab, and other species, and it is recognized as one of the most productive fisheries in the world, with the second largest volume of commercial fishing landings by region in the Nation, contributing millions of dollars to local American economies,
notes the order
It's not going to be a mass sweep of neighborhoods. It's not going to be building concentration camps. I've read it all. It's ridiculous,
Homan told CBS
The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors,
the authors wroteI don't disagree with everything in Project 2025, but I disagree with some things."
Trump has distanced himself from it, describing parts of it as "ridiculous and abysmal," but later appeared to change his tune, telling Time magazine in DecemberWe will also be designating the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,
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This is not the right outlet for him to play this out. It plays to his MAGA base, but it's not the right one for the country,
Kupperman told the Times
It looks like the beginning of a retribution campaign."
Charles Kupperman told the New York TimesOur lawsuit is ongoing, and we're pursuing those records so the American people can see the full scope of the Biden administration's attempts to use the federal government to change the outcome of an election,
Whitson said
The Justice Department needs to withdraw its claims of executive privilege and order these agencies to, in full compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, produce all documents in connection to Biden's order so that we can have public disclosure and transparency,
Spakovsky said
Imagine if, say, the Heritage Foundation drafted an executive order for President Trump to boost voter turnout, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives worked with the National Rifle Association to carry it out while ignoring subpoenas from Democratic-run committees,
Walter said
That's something, ... that we're probably going to look at through the Election Integrity Caucus."
Tenney addedThat might [include] illegal immigrants,
Tenney speculated