Why the Media and CIA Factions Are at War With Trump

• 49:11Tim's guest describes the WikiLeaks figure as imperious and difficult, but notes that people willing to risk everything may not be concerned with popularity.
• 49:45The question of whether the DNC hack was actually a Russian operation remains hard to know, despite confident assertions.
• 50:18FBI's New York office had close ties to Felix Sater, who later ran something described variously as Republican or Russian operations for Trump.
• 50:40The guest's editors rejected publishing information about Sater's large donation to Trump, saying there was already enough material.
• 51:03Former FBI agents who ran Sater left government and created a private security company whose primary client was candidate Donald Trump.
• 51:37Trump brought his private security detail into the White House very controversially, and these former FBI people may still be there.
• 51:51Tim notes the private security force protecting Trump is called the Red Guard, an extraordinary arrangement.
• 52:23Trump has advisors who point to security failures during the Kennedy assassination and other presidential shooting attempts as justification for extra protection layers.
• 52:57Hillary's campaign could have theoretically exposed this information, but the guest doubts campaign strategists and pollsters actually saw these patterns amid the chaos.
• 54:12The establishment media turned overtly against Trump after he got the Republican nomination, yet never deployed information about FBI connections or Felix Sater to take him down earlier.
• 54:33Tim wonders why the media and establishment didn't use available information as ammunition during their long effort to take Trump down.

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