02-11-2016, 08:48 PM
R.K. Locke Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:R.K. Locke Wrote:Tracy Riddle Wrote:The national security elite can't really want Trump with his Russian ties and unstable personality to be President. Hillary is clearly their candidate. I'm not really sure what's going on anymore.
Do you believe that there is simply one national security elite, united in its goals and preferences?
No, but what faction would want Trump to be president, and for what reason?
The million dollar question. I don't think it's necessarily the case that they want Trump. It is very clear, however, that they don't want Hillary.
Well, it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that if they sink Hillary, they're going to get Mr. Don't-Know-What-the-Nuclear-Triad-is. And why do we make nukes if we can't use them? And I know more than the Generals about that war that I supported before I was against it.
Maybe they just think he'd be easy to control because he's so ignorant.
By the way, Trump is currently looking at two court appearances coming up - one for the Trump University scam in late November in NY, and one for an accused rape in NY in mid-December. That's before he would even take office.