From Gary Bauer at Campaign for Working Families:
In Case You Missed It
CIA chief John Brennan publicly attacked Donald Trump over the weekend, saying he took “great umbrage” with Trump’s reaction to repeated leaks about his intelligence briefings. I can’t recall the last time a CIA director was so clearly engaged in partisan politics.
Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward defended Trump against leaks from the intelligence community and the alleged Russian dossier. On Fox News Sunday, Woodward said:
“I’ve lived in this world for 45 years where you get things and people make allegations. That is a garbage document. It never should have been presented as part of an intelligence briefing. . . I think if you look at the real chronology and the nature of the battle here, those intelligence chiefs . . . made a mistake here. And when people make mistakes, they should apologize.”
Writing in the Wall Street Journal historian John Steele Gordon suggests that Trump’s victory may signal the beginning of a new political order.
While Hillary won the popular vote, Gordon notes the following: “Hillary Clinton’s popular-vote margin of 2.9 million was built on an extremely narrow base. . . Subtract her margins in a mere five counties — the New York City boroughs, save Staten Island, and Los Angeles County — and she lost the popular vote in the remainder of the nation by more than 500,000.”
