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The Partisan Attacks on Christopher Steele

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to John Sipher, a former senior member of the CIA's Intelligence Service, about Christopher Steele and the partisan attacks on him and his work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud.

0:10.0

That's right, Trump wants a military parade.

0:12.7

So you're just going full dictator now.

0:14.6

He can go see the tanks that the military basically wanted.

0:17.4

You get Donald Trump a military uniform with epilets on the shoulders and give him some

0:21.9

salad dressing to put on the left lapel and let him march around and pretend to be General

0:26.5

Patton.

0:27.5

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who wants tanks on Pennsylvania

0:37.8

Avenue, Donald Trump.

0:39.7

I'm Jacob Oyspurt.

0:41.6

You see what he's doing, don't you?

0:43.7

Calling for a huge military parade, like the one he saw in Paris on Bastille Day.

0:48.6

It's not just an expression of my missiles bigger than yours competitiveness.

0:56.0

It's a calculated political gambit, like it's attacking NFL players for taking a knee during

1:00.8

the national anthem or calling Democrats treasonous for not standing in a plotting for him during

1:05.9

the state of the union.

1:07.1

Un-American.

1:08.9

Somebody said treasonous, I mean, yeah, I guess why not?

1:12.9

Trump knows exactly how liberals are going to react to these outrageous.

1:16.9

They'll recoil and horrid as politicization of the military, his wrapping himself in

1:21.5

the flag and his disregard for free expression.

1:25.0

When Democrats react that way, the battle lines get drawn just where he wants them, with

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