{"id":2335,"date":"2020-03-12T16:40:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2020-03-12T16:40:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:40:13","slug":"trumps-explanation-for-abruptly-replacing-the-acting-intel-director-with-a-loyalist-doesnt-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2335","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s explanation for abruptly replacing the acting intel director with a loyalist doesn\u2019t make sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the talking point the Trump administration is using to dispel concerns that Maguire\u2019s dismissal was politically motivated doesn\u2019t carry water.&#8221;&nbsp;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Maguire\u2019s ouster may be part of Trump\u2019s broader effort to get rid of government officials he perceives as being insufficiently loyal. On Sunday, Jonathan Swan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-memos-deep-state-white-house-ce5be95f-2418-433d-b036-2bf41c9700c3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;for Axios that the Trump administration has \u201cassembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust \u2014 and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them.\u201d&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/24\/21150672\/joseph-maguire-trump-dismissed-acting-dni-vacancies-act-explained\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/2\/24\/21150672\/joseph-maguire-trump-dismissed-acting-dni-vacancies-act-explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the talking point the Trump administration is using to dispel concerns that Maguire\u2019s dismissal was politically motivated doesn\u2019t carry water.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maguire\u2019s ouster may be part of Trump\u2019s broader effort to get rid of government officials he perceives as being insufficiently loyal. On Sunday, Jonathan Swan reported for Axios that the Trump administration has \u201cassembled detailed lists of disloyal government officials to oust \u2014 and trusted pro-Trump people to replace them.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,170],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}