Republican North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr (along with partner in crime California Sen. Dianne Feinstein) wants to make sure Americans have no more privacy in the name of national security. He wants to do a lot in the name of national security, but his concern apparently does not extend to the national security risk of Donald Trump in the White House. Never mind Trump's confession that he sexually assaults women: Burr thinks Trump should be our leader.
"I'm concerned with what he said. It’s indefensible," Burr said after appearing at a corporate groundbreaking in Morrisville on Monday. He drove to the occasion in a car that sported a Trump bumper sticker.
"But when I look at where America needs to go from an economic standpoint, from a jobs standpoint, from a national defense standpoint, I can't see Hillary Clinton getting us there," Burr said. "So, I support the person who I think best can change America, and right now, that’s Donald Trump given the two choices." [emphasis added]
Burr’s supporting the man who the intelligence community was "quite upset" at last month for blabbing about his first classified intelligence briefing, and are very unhappy with him this week for his "willful misrepresentation" of the information they provided about the Russian hack into the DNC.
In other words, Trump's a bigger nightmare for the intelligence community than the iPhone or encryption software right now. But Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr thinks he should still be president.
And Dianne Feinstein needs to get her ass to North Carolina to campaign for Deborah Ross. As penance.
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