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Dulcinea

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Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:19 AM Jan 27

Trump should rethink revoking former officials' security details, Tom Cotton says

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — President Donald Trump should rethink his decision to remove security details from three former senior national security officials, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday.

That protection is not just for them, but also the public, said Sen. Tom Cotton, a Trump loyalist who nonetheless is pushing back against the president’s targeting of those he perceived as adversaries. Cotton said a president needs to keep qualified individuals interested in serving the White House and that may sometimes require enhanced security for officials.

The Arkansas senator said he would encourage Trump “to revisit the decision for those people” — former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook, a former senior policy adviser to Pompeo. All were involved in planning and discussions of the deadly drone strike on Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani in January 2020.

“The threat to anyone involved in President Trump’s strike on Qasem Soleimani is persistent. It’s real,” Cotton said during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” “Iran is committed to vengeance against all of these people.”

https://apnews.com/article/tom-cotton-john-bolton-trump-security-detail-388ab588a7fdc7c73e30fa5a1194a5b4

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Trump should rethink revoking former officials' security details, Tom Cotton says (Original Post) Dulcinea Jan 27 OP
Tom Cotton is an asshole - but he knows if something happens to any of those people that TCF removed security details Pachamama Jan 27 #1
Yes, and that plus $2.00 will get him coffee with free refills at Dennys . . .. hatrack Jan 27 #2

Pachamama

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1. Tom Cotton is an asshole - but he knows if something happens to any of those people that TCF removed security details
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:37 AM
Jan 27

That there will be serious consequences and so he is nervous because he wants to protect his King
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