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Republican Senators Call on Trump to Rethink Revoked Security Details​

Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton said that the former Trump aides faced continuing threats from Iran and that the decision could affect how current officials do their jobs.

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Republican Senators Call on Trump to Rethink Revoked Security Details

Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton said that the former Trump aides faced continuing threats from Iran and that the decision could affect how current officials do their jobs.
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“… Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, spoke after Mr. Trump abruptly halted government security protection for three officials from his first time who were involved in his Iran policy and have remained under threat.

One of them, John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s third national security adviser, has been a vocal critic of Mr. Trump since departing the administration in 2019. The other two, his former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and another former top State Department official, Brian Hook, have been supportive of Mr. Trump. His decision to pull their details surprised and alarmed some of the president’s allies.

“I would encourage the president to revisit the decision for those people who are being targeted by Iran, as the president was targeted for assassination by Iran,” Mr. Cotton said on Fox News. He said he had reviewed current intelligence and that the threats remained real.

… Mr. Graham deflected a question about whether the withdrawal of protection amounted to retribution by Mr. Trump against Mr. Bolton but said, “The question is, do you deserve protection because you served an administration, you stood up to a foreign adversary, and they want to kill you?"

Mr. Trump has also pulled the security for Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the infectious disease expert who advised the first Trump administration during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Fauci has been a target of Mr. Trump’s political base for almost five years including threats against his life. …”
 
This is being discussed in the immigration/deportation thread but also relevant, I think

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nycfan said:

Republican Senators Call on Trump to Rethink Revoked Security Details​

Senators Lindsey Graham and Tom Cotton said that the former Trump aides faced continuing threats from Iran and that the decision could affect how current officials do their jobs.
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"...that the decision could affect how current officials do their jobs."

That's the point.
 
Yosef said:
Man our country is BACK! It is no longer a laughing stock.
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Wrong. Everyone else except maybe Russia and North Korea are laughing at us and appaled at what is happening to our country. The only people the country is back for are straight white Christian fascists.
 


“… The conflict began on Wednesday, when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put out a statement criticizing new executive ordersrelated to immigration.

“Several of the executive orders signed by President Trump this week are specifically intended to eviscerate humanitarian protections enshrined in federal law and undermine due process, subjecting vulnerable families and children to grave danger,” wrote Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the conference’s Committee on Migration. …”



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Vance went on to say that Catholic leaders may be more upset about losing the federal money that goes to religious organizations that help immigrants and refugees than about the Trump administration’s executive orders.

“I think that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops needs to actually look in the mirror a little bit and recognize that when they receive over $100 million to help resettle illegal immigrants, are they worried about humanitarian concerns? Or are they actually worried about their bottom line?,” the vice president said in the CBS News interview, which aired on Sunday.

Later on Sunday, Catholic leaders released a statement on the church’s resettlement work, explaining that it spends more on its refugee program than it receives from the federal government.

“Faithful to the teaching of Jesus Christ, the Catholic Church has a long history of serving refugees. In 1980, the bishops of the United States began partnering with the federal government to carry out this service when Congress created the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP). Every person resettled through USRAP is vetted and approved for the program by the federal government while outside of the United States. In our agreements with the government, the USCCB receives funds to do this work; however, these funds are not sufficient to cover the entire cost of these programs. Nonetheless, this remains a work of mercy and ministry of the Church," the statement said. …”
 
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