Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is stepping down from his job, having had enough of Trump and deciding to retire before Trump could have the pleasure of firing him. Coats, a former two-time Indiana Republican senator and an esteemed elder statesman, disagreed with Trump on many an occasion and offended him by giving information on national security issues that offered something Trump couldn't understand - the truth.
Coats has long been trying to keep the Russians at arm's length ever since he took his current and soon-to-be former job, as it turns out that, yes, the Russians did interfere in the 2016 elections. Trump would rather have someone to tell him that the real national security threats are from Muslim countries, Central America, immigrant caravans, and anyone investigating him. That's why he chose Texas Republican congressman John Ratcliffe, who has no experience in national security and whose biggest qualification for the job, aside from agreeing with everything Trump says, is the way he grilled Robert Mueller in last week's hearings over obstruction of justice. Like Trump, Ratcliffe is a paranoiac. And his slim chances of being confirmed by the Senate only shows that paranoiacs have enemies.
I don't think I'll get a break from commenting on this "administration."
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