#john ratcliffe

[talisman975]

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Allan Smith and Vaughn Hillyard at NBC News:

President-elect Donald Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election, seeing the conservative transition plan and policy blueprint as a liability after Democrats used it to attack his campaign. Some close to Trump even suggested those tied to the effort would be shut out of a potential administration. “They made themselves nuclear,” Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition and his nominee to serve as Commerce Secretary, told CNBC in September. But with the campaign over, Trump’s transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration. Already, transition officials are taking suggestions for potential hires from the extensive personnel database created by Project 2025, a person familiar with the situation told NBC News. While Project 2025’s massive book of conservative policy recommendations received most of the attention from Democrats, a central part of the effort was putting together a database that officials had framed as a conservative LinkedIn to help staff an incoming Republican administration.

The person familiar with the transition said officials overseeing plans for some departments and agencies have started to reach out to potential hires whose names and contact information were part of that database. Individuals helping to fill out the personnel teams for the Trump transition operation have sought and used information from the Project 2025 database because of the enormity of the task of filling out the more than 4,000 political appointee jobs that will become vacant in 2025, this person said. “There’s a lot of positions to fill and we continue to send names over, including ones from the database as they are conservative, qualified and vetted,” the person, who worked on Project 2025, said. “Hard to find 4,000 solid people, so we are happy to help.” The receptiveness to using the Project 2025 database for potential hires comes as the transition has already shown it is open to tapping contributors to the effort for administration jobs, including Tom Homan as border czar, Brendan Carr as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and John Ratcliffe as CIA director. Both Homan and Ratcliffe were listed as contributors to Project 2025, while Carr wrote a chapter on the FCC.

Additionally, former Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, a Project 2025 author who also served as the Republican National Committee’s platform policy director, is thought of as a potential administration pick, too. But not everyone is being welcomed aboard. Politico reported Thursday that the transition rejected a push for former Trump administration official Roger Severino, who wrote Project 2025’s chapter on the Department of Health and Human Services, to serve as deputy secretary of the agency, over concerns about the anti-abortion policies he laid out in the policy blueprint.  The personnel database was a cornerstone of Project 2025. Under Paul Dans, a former Trump administration official who led Project 2025, the group built a database of more than 10,000 candidates vetted for their MAGA credentials who would build out the administration in the event Trump won, as ProPublica reported in August. The idea behind the effort was to ensure that a future Trump administration would have the foot soldiers necessary to rapidly enact his agenda upon taking office.

[...] Project 2025 played a huge role in Democratic campaign advertising and in the party’s anti-Trump message during both President Joe Biden’s and Vice President Kamala Harris’ bids, sparking Trump and his allies to ratchet up their condemnations and claim the policy agenda was not Trump’s. 

There was plenty of overlap between the Trump agenda and Project 2025 — which featured contributions from dozens of officials from Trump’s first administration. For instance, the Project 2025 policy blueprint and Trump’s “Agenda 47” featured similar ideas on mass deportations and slashing the federal bureaucracy. There were some differences, though, as Project 2025 included calls for banning pornography and dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It also featured stringent anti-abortion rights policies that clashed with Trump’s abortion message during the campaign. At a July campaign event in Grand Rapids, Trump said people on “the severe right came up with this Project 2025.” “Very, very conservative,” he said. “Sort of the opposite of the radical left. You have the radical left and the radical right. They came up with this. I don’t know what it is. … Then you read some of these things and they are seriously extreme. But I don’t know anything about it. I don’t want to know anything about it.”

Remember when Donald Trump claimed to “disavow” Project 2025 during the campaign? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Now, he is using Project 2025 authors to staff up his administration.

See Also:

Rolling Stone: Trump Is Stocking His Administration With the People Behind Project 2025

[gwydionmisha]

Trump officials asked over a dozen senior career diplomats to step down, sources say

Here comes the partisan purge as part of the Republican war on good government and expertise..

Remember how W insisting all intelligence briefings should be tailored to what he wanted to hear led to 9/11 being successful? They are planning competent non-partisan people with integrity from our intelligence services so they can do that on a large scale for 47.

On a related note Ratcliffe has basically vowed to do just that at the CIA, which is why 47 picked him. It's also why he wants Kash Patel for the FBI.

He is replacing vetted, competent people with people he didn't bother to vet and is giving them security clearances willy nilly.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Vincenzo Carducci (Italian, 1576-1638) Expugnación de Rheinfelden, 1634 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid In 1633, a Spanish army under Don Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, 3rd Duke of Feria, took the Swiss city of Rheinfelden, in a plan to link the Spanish territories of Milan and the Spanish Netherlands.

[dragoneyes618]

Ratcliffe is Anglican.

Frollo is Catholic.

I think it can be assumed that any showdown between the two of them will go down just as well as any confrontation between either of them and Facilier.

[wherepond]

Ukraine

Heads of US and Russian intelligence prepare ground for Ukraine negotiations.

Jaw jaw instead of war war.

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Do you think we will win?

[ricisidro]

The new CIA director John Ratcliffe released the conclusion that Covid 19 probably began from the Wuhan Institute of Virology laboratory leak in China in a new assessment of the origins of the pandemic that killed 7 million people.

-https://www.ft.com/content/9880273c-8517-4502-abf0-e667319ea6bd

-https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.html?smid=url-share

[targethitsquad]

[channeledhistory]

Der US-Senat hat John Ratcliffe als neuen Direktor des US-Auslandsgeheimdienstes CIA bestätigt. [...]

[...] Der ehemalige Kongressabgeordnete aus Texas gilt als Vertrauter von Präsident Donald Trump.

Der Republikaner aus Texas ist ein ehemaliger Bundesstaatsanwalt und war bislang Co-Vorsitzender eines Trump-nahen konservativen Think-Tanks. In der ersten Amtszeit Trumps war er als Geheimdienstkoordinator tätig. Die Demokraten warfen Ratcliffe damals unter anderem vor, seine Position für politische Zwecke zu missbrauchen. Als Kongressabgeordneter während Trumps erstem Amtsenthebungsverfahren verteidigte er den Präsidenten vehement. Während seiner Anhörung im Senat stellten die demokratischen Senatoren Ratcliffes Objektivität in Frage und befürchteten, dass seine Loyalität zu Trump ihn dazu veranlassen würde, sein Amt zu politisieren. Die Bedenken des demokratischen Senators Chris Murphy zwangen die Republikaner im Senat, die ursprünglich für Dienstag geplante Abstimmung über Ratcliffes Bestätigung zu verschieben.

[...]

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sophie Lawton, Madeline Peltz, and John Knefel at MMFA:

Though President-elect Donald Trump tried throughout the 2024 campaign to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation-led initiative Project 2025 -- a sprawling right-wing plan to remake the federal government in the MAGA mold -- his transition team has named several individuals with tight connections to the initiative to key posts in his forthcoming administration. This is no surprise. Eighteen of the writers and editors of Project 2025’s opus, Mandate for Leadership, served in the first Trump administration. Twelve more worked both in the administration and for one of the Trump campaign or transition teams. Of the 267 total contributors to the Project 2025 efforts, 144 worked in the first Trump administration or in his campaign or transition teams. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts has expressed his appreciation for Trump’s nominees, saying he’s “ecstatic” about them and that the selections are “exceeding our expectations.” Roberts acknowledged that “it would be very difficult” for a Trump administration to make policy “without at least consulting” Project 2025.

Donald Trump claimed to “disavow” Project 2025, but since his election to the White House for his 2nd stint, his transition team has named several Project 2025 writers to serve in his administration for his 2nd term, most notably Thomas Homan, Karoline Leavitt, Brendan Carr, and Russ Vought.

[brahmadesham-suresh-bharadwaj]

47th US President Donald Trump has appointed Top-Ranking Republicans and American Patriots of Exceptional Capabilities, Administrative Acument, and Time-Tested Credentials to serve in the upper echelons of his 47th US Presidential Administration: (1) Susan Wiles - White House Chief of Staff (2) Pam Bondi - Attorney General (3) Kashyap Pramod Vinod 'Kash' Patel - FBI Director (4) John Ratcliffe - CBI Director (5) Tulsi Gabbard - US National Intelligence Director (6) Kristi Noem - US Homeland Security Secretary (6) Tom Homan - US Border Security Czar (7) Elon Musk - Joint Head of US Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) (8) Vivek G. Ramaswamy - Joint Head of US Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) Barron Melania Trump, the son of Donald Trump and Melania Trump, played a significant role in the victory of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. This has created a huge fan following among Republican Rank and File and Independents for Barron Melania Trump and prompted talk that Barron Melania Trump could follow in the footsteps of his tw-term US President father Donald Trump and become the 54th President of the United States of America. 47th US President Donald Trump' and Melania Trump's Only Son Barron William Trump Could Become 54th US President and that would not be surprising to people who have followed the 2024 US Presidential Election and who are aware of the stellar role that Barron Trump played in attracting Gen Z to Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and facilitated Donald Trump's becoming the only US Presidential Candidate who became US President for two non-consecutive terms. 47th US President Donald Trump's Son Barron William Trump Could Become 54th US President

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Vincenzo Carducci (Italian, 1576-1638) Socorro de la plaza de Constanza, 1634 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid This painting celebrates the liberation of the Swiss square of Constance from the siege to which it was being subjected by the Swedish troops of General Horn, who sought to cut off the communication of the imperial troops with the Spanish troops of Valtellina and Milanese. On the canvas, the Spanish nobleman, diplomat and army commander Don Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, 3rd Duke of Feria appears in the foreground, on horseback, on an elevation of land, practically occupying the left half of the canvas. A lance page runs at his side, and behind him appears a group of armored knights among whom Lieutenant General Geraldo Gambacurta, who commanded the cavalry, may be represented.

[dragoneyes618]

So John Ratcliffe in the Disney movie was based off a real-life person and this is how he died-