Is there anything less democratic that the government choosing the presidential candidates the people are allowed to vote for? I guess full-on communism would be worse, but this is pretty bad too. A former FBI assistant director and current NBC national security contributor is saying that there should be a government committee that picks the people who are allowed to run for president. Of course this fascism is related to Donald Trump, as the plan is to make sure no one like him ever runs for president again.
Frank Figliuzzi was named Assistant Director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in 2011 by none other than then-Director Robert Mueller, which already destroys his credibility. It further erodes because he is a national security advisor on NBC and MSNBC.
MSNBC’s @FrankFigliuzzi1 proposes creating a “bipartisan commission” to vet presidential candidates to prevent another Trump: “We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again.” pic.twitter.com/itZp3ZebJz
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 1, 2020
Figliuzzi was on MSNBC discussing the fake news NYT article about President Trump’s taxes. He continued to push the thoroughly debunked lie that Trump was entangled with Russia and even called Trump a compromised national security threat. I guess he never read his former boss’ report that proved the President had nothing to do with Russia, but then again if he was dealing in facts, NBC and MSNBC wouldn’t write him any checks.
“He is the most vulnerable president in our history in terms of compromise and potential exposure to those who want to help him dig out of his financial pit in return for a price and that’s, I think, where the national security problem comes in, that price, that they would ask for, is that he makes decisions in their best interest, not in our best interest,” said Figliuzzi of Trump.
Yeah, is there anyone more susceptible to blackmail and bribery that a self-made billionaire?
In an effort to appear even dumber, Figliuzzi came up with a plan to make sure no one like Donald J. Trump would ever be allowed to run for president again.
“We’ve got to have a national discussion about how we vet a presidential candidate. We screwed this up. Whether it’s the media not digging deeply enough, whether it’s a time to have a discussion about a bipartisan committee that demands tax returns, make that a requirement, or exposes financial pictures for candidates. But we got this wrong, and this can’t happen again,” Figliuzzi said.
So that would be a bunch of career politicians deciding who Americans are allowed to vote for? How about no? The fact that he thinks this is something that could be done with bipartisan cooperation is even dumber. We don’t need a system where Nancy Pelosi has a say in who the Republican candidate for president is. Shit, we don’t need a system where Nancy Pelosi has a say in anything.
And here’s the thing Figliuzzi fails to understand: if there were a vetting process to eliminate candidates over financial entanglements, no democrat would ever pass the process. Joe Biden would be disqualified because of his crackhead son Hunter Biden’s financial dealings with Ukraine, Russia and China. Hillary Clinton would have been axed because she couldn’t explain how she and her rapist husband went from “dead broke” in 2000 to being worth more than $30 million a decade later. Obama wouldn’t have made the cut due to the fact that he can’t account for how he went to some of the top universities and managed to live luxuriously without ever actually having a job that pays money. Also, you can’t find a democrat that isn’t crooked.
I’m sure Figliuzzi is counting on the Washington swamp to look the other way on stuff like this and only promote corrupt people who would maintain the status quo. Still, it’s not something that would be good for the country or democracy.
