{"id":13020,"date":"2016-12-11T07:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T14:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/trump-is-a-liar-his-transition-team-is-composed-of-liars\/"},"modified":"2016-12-16T22:27:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:27:43","slug":"trump-is-a-liar-his-transition-team-is-composed-of-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/trump-is-a-liar-his-transition-team-is-composed-of-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is a Liar. His Transition Team is Composed of Liars."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not &#8220;news&#8221;, but it must still be noted, every time, in part because they <em>base their decisions<\/em> on those same lies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition team was dismissive of the CIA in a response to a Washington Post report that the agency had found in a secret assessment that Russian actors sought to boost Trump in the election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>&#8220;These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; read the statement. &#8220;The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It&#8217;s now time to move on and &#8216;Make America Great Again.'&#8221;<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, you swarmy, smarmy fuckers: let&#8217;s break this down, because literally everything you said is a lie, and I&#8217;m in a bad mood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was George W. Bush&#8217;s White House that claimed to be convinced that Iraq had WMDs, not CIA intelligence officers. <\/li>\n<li>The election was a month ago \u2014 we&#8217;re still closer to election day than we are to Trump&#8217;s first day in office. <\/li>\n<li>Trump lost the popular vote by almost 3 million votes. <\/li>\n<li>His Electoral College win ranks 46th out of 58 in American history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, if you read their statement (that single paragraph is literally the <strong>entire response<\/strong> to a foreign state successfully acting to alter our country&#8217;s <em>presidential election<\/em>) you&#8217;ll notice they don&#8217;t even claim the report is false \u2014 it&#8217;s that is <em>doesn&#8217;t matter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And the best part: One of the people who actually <em>did<\/em> claim Iraq had WMDs was John Bolton, then the Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s team is considering Bolton for Deputy Secretary of State, serving directly behind an Exxon exec with ties to Russia so flagrant even Republicans are shaking their heads.<\/p>\n<p>So:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s team says the people who claimed Iraq had WMDs in 2002 have no credibility on matters of foreign intelligence.  <\/li>\n<li>\u2026 and are considering one of the people who <em>actually said that<\/em> as second-in-command at the State Department.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top. Notch. Thinking.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-dismisses-cia-in-response-to-wapo-report-on-russian-electoral-interferences'><img style='display:block;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dtepvzccGF_HwIgn_sYDpB5abfiGxJ2w6ipuxLgQ1IDflzbtxq8f8yaYW6YNSIqRczCmh1Ar2DFkxGPCIUdgauEU7YjTumworpAXBvqg1cP-oWt2nJxUjfvOiRU2sbmzrJpUdiCM2QKkMOkKEDKKqxbpX-NYUnY=w506-h910' border='0' \/>Trump Disses CIA In Response To Report On Russian Electoral Interferences<\/a><br \/>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition team was dismissive of the CIA in a response to a Washington Post report that the agency had found in a secret assessment that Russian actors sought to boost Trump in the election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; the statement. &#8220;The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It&rsquo;s now time to move on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not &#8220;news&#8221;, but it must still be noted, every time, in part because they base their decisions on those same lies. President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition team was dismissive of the CIA in a response to a Washington Post report that the agency had found in a secret assessment that Russian actors sought to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/trump-is-a-liar-his-transition-team-is-composed-of-liars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trump is a Liar. His Transition Team is Composed of Liars.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[684],"tags":[20,238],"class_list":["post-13020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-blog","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13020\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}