David Rothkopf

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813 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 22 Aug

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IHIP News · Melania Panicking After Epstein Cross-Examination Goes Nuclear She Can't Hide · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

I'm serious.

Front page of The Washington Post today.

And it's like, are you fucking kidding me?

You know, they want to wage a war on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party when you have the most corrupt president in history destroying the rule of law in the United States.

undermining our institutions, destroying our alliances around the world, waging illegal wars, inviting pandemics to pop up again and spread and kill millions of people because they don't believe in science.

And they want to go after AOC or Mamdani because he thinks that people ought to have health care or they ought to have free education.

Holy shit.

Absolutely right.

First of all, the job of director of national intelligence is one of few jobs where it explicitly calls for a certain kind of experience for somebody to have the job.

It explicitly says in the description of the job to get confirmed for this job, you've got to have intelligence experience.

This guy has none.

But Trump's done this work around where he goes and becomes an acting director of national intelligence.

And so then you have to say, well, why would you give the job to somebody who has no intelligence experience?

And there are only a couple of reasons.

One would be to make the United States at greater risk and to help our enemies, including Trump's sponsor, Vladimir Putin.

But let's set that aside for a second.

He is definitely putting the US at risk by neutering the intelligence community in the way that it does by putting somebody brain dead and inexperienced on top of it.

But you have to ask, why would Trump do that?

And the answer is, well, if your mission is to advance intelligence gathering and do intelligence analysis, well, then of course you hire somebody with experience in that area.

But if your mission is to stay in office and protect yourself against enemies who want to prosecute you for crimes that you actually committed,

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