{"id":14243,"date":"2020-01-26T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T15:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14243"},"modified":"2020-01-26T11:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T15:34:13","slug":"why-the-u-s-security-establishment-cant-stand-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/why-the-u-s-security-establishment-cant-stand-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the U.S. Security Establishment Can&#8217;t Stand Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-26-Why-the-U-S-Security-Establishment-Cant-Stand-Trump-RealClearPolitics1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-26-Why-the-U-S-Security-Establishment-Cant-Stand-Trump-RealClearPolitics1.png 784w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-26-Why-the-U-S-Security-Establishment-Cant-Stand-Trump-RealClearPolitics1-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-26-Why-the-U-S-Security-Establishment-Cant-Stand-Trump-RealClearPolitics1-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>RealClear Politics<\/strong>, commentary by  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/authors\/steve_cortes\/\">Steve Cortes<\/a> &#8212; January 25, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The national security establishment of the United States recognizes a  clear and present danger &#8212; not a threat to America\u2019s security, mind  you, but rather to their own institutional power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>These Beltway apparatchiks determined early on in 2016 that Donald  Trump and the \u201cAmerica First\u201d movement he represented would  strategically alter the way America interacts with the world. A Trump  administration, they surmised, would directly challenge the prerogatives  of the permanent national security apparatus that has operated as a  sort of parallel government for decades. For too long, these power  brokers have used positions of influence in government, lobbying firms,  and media to plunge America into wasteful wars and global meddling. Such  policy prescriptions served the ambitions of these operators, making  them wealthy and powerful, while largely unaccountable to the American  people, the ones who actually paid the massive price in blood and  treasure.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As the national security establishment identified Donald Trump as a  threat to this established order, it deployed the government\u2019s  substantial security capacities to interfere with his candidacy. When he  won the presidency anyway, these deep state actors attempted to  destabilize his presidency. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impeachment-hoax.com\/\">catalogued<\/a>  in an outline by my organization, the America First Action Super PAC,  the pace of the intervention greatly accelerated as the Trump movement  ascended. It culminated in the current Senate impeachment trial. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/25\/why_the_us_security_establishment_cant_stand_trump.html\">https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/01\/25\/why_the_us_security_establishment_cant_stand_trump.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RealClear Politics, commentary by Steve Cortes &#8212; January 25, 2020 Excerpt: The national security establishment of the United States recognizes a clear and present danger &#8212; not a threat to America\u2019s security, mind you, but rather to their own institutional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/why-the-u-s-security-establishment-cant-stand-trump\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14248,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14243\/revisions\/14248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}