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... "We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second Trump term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly," the letter said. "We are all lifelong Republicans who served our country. However, there are moments in history where it becomes necessary to put country over party. This is one of those moments."

Politico was first to report on the letter.

The letter, released by the Harris campaign, is signed by former officials including former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor, and Olivia Troye, former national security adviser to Mike Pence. All three former Trump administration officials have become high-profile critics of his after his presidency ended. ...

Why is it that so many Republicans, many of them formerly deep in Trump's admin or inner circle, are willing to testify against and/or criticize fmr Pres Trump.

@4 ... "Putin and the whole group, Kim Jong Un, they're tough guys out there. They're tough and they're smart and they're street wise and they're at the top of their game," Trump told rallygoers." ...

I agree with fmr Pres Trump in that statement that he admires "Putin and the whole group, Kim Jong Un."

But the question I have about it is ... what is the game that he admires them for being at the top of?

The suppression of Democracy and the fortification of a dictatorship?

@#6 ... "Be kind to those you pass on the way up as you may pass them again on the way down." ...

I had heard the same adage.

But it was in a class I was in for the GE Management Training Program back in the early 70's.

@#8 ... ike for the fake Hunter Russian laptop hoax ...

Not sure what you mean here.Can you explain?

thx.

... I hope Trump keeps the list so he knows the first ones to lock up. ...

OK, so you seem to be quite in favor of the revenge Presidency that fmr Pres Trump says he will do.

My first question of that would be...

Why is such a revenge Presidency good for the American people?

@#10 ... jail those that corrupted the system ...

Starting with the candidate with ... how many convictions?

@#24 ... Lordy, there ARE tapes! ...

That seems to be the case.

More from the link in #24...

... Investigators from the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence have already met on Capitol Hill with the whistleblower, and their lawyer Dan Meyer, National Security Partner at Tully Rickney just revealed exclusively, "the recordings have actually been heard."

Meyer says his client's whistleblower report has been "formally through the intake process at the Senate Intelligence Committee. In that process, it's the counsels for both the majority and minority members that met with the whistleblower. I [attended] telephonically."

"So both the Democratic and the Republican, General Councils on the Senate Intelligence Committee were on the call when the whistleblower played from the recordings," explained the lawyer, who is himself a three-time whistleblower. ...