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THREAD: @maddow is asking tonight why the My Pillow guy and other trump allies like acting defense Secretary Chris Miller are making an eleventh-hour push to install trump sycophants in the NSA and CIA. There has to be a reason, and I have a guess. 1/
First, we know that after trump met with Chris Miller last Friday, Miller made a push to force Michael Ellis (former Nunes counsel and the guy who hid the Zelensky call in the code-word classified system) in as NSA general counsel. 2/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/nsa-counsel-michael-ellis-christopher-miller/index.html
We also know the My Pillow guy told Trump to install Kash Patel (former Nunes aide) as acting CIA Director, but what Maddow didn’t mention was that Haspel nearly resigned last December when trump tried to install Patel as the deputy director back then. 3/ https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/534551-cia-chief-threatened-to-resign-over-push-to-install-trump-loyalist-as
And Pelosi isn’t taking this lightly. She’s sent a letter demanding answers. And we learned today that Biden’s COS Ron Klain has considered stopping intelligence briefings for Trump after he leaves office. 4/ https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/politics/ron-klain-trump-briefings-cnntv/index.html
But this is the glaring part: former deputy director of National Intel Sue Gordon penned a op ed saying we should cut off access to intelligence to trump because he “might be unusually vulnerable to bad actors with ill intent.” 5/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sue-gordon-trump-intelligence-briefings-former-president/2021/01/15/94b15c72-5747-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html
Why he is vulnerable? He’s a billion dollars in debt. Much of which is coming due in the next few years. His friend at Deutsche, Rosemary Vrablic resigned after they started looking into his loans. No bank will touch him. He’s broke & desperate. 6/
If they cut off his intelligence briefings, how will he get access to our national security secrets to sell? Perhaps by burrowing allies into intelligence agencies? I’m just guessing, but it seems pretty obvious to me, and I’ve been saying it for a while. END/
PS- I should be clear that I don’t think this is the ONLY reason he’s burrowing allies in our intelligence agencies; just an obvious one. Biden will be able to remove them and I think he will. 
