Whilst there has been much news about the firing of top level officials, replacement with Trump loyalists and the expectancy of more such shuffles, the reality is that the firings & rumoured next firings have been quite narrow in scope.
The Department of Defence, civilian intelligence agencies & the FBI
Why is Trump so keen to put loyalists in there? What is his problem with those organisations? 2+2 in this case does equal 4.
The coup-o-meter didn't move, they say:
The firing of Secretary Esper is troubling but appears to be retaliatory as opposed to part of a plan to activate the military domestically. This action was widely understood to be in the works before the election.
I had to read that a few times to work out what particle accelerators had to do with anything. Laura Kuenssberg writes weird tweets, there's often some kind of deeply strange abbreviation or bizarre flub in there somewhere.
Maybe she’s dropping hints, QAnon style. Or should it be KueAnon?
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