By the time the 2024 campaign came along, former CIA analyst and Georgetown University Professor John Gentry predicted that “[t]he CIA has become politicized and will work to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.” He “warned that politicization of the CIA has become a ‘significant’ problem.”
 
The CIA’s Continuing Threat to President Trump
 
The CIA has extensive experience in undermining democratically elected governments, using riots, bribery, threats, false flags, paramilitary operations, and even assassinations. The CIA has near-unlimited funds, the ability to conduct its operations in secret, a politicized senior leadership, and a deep commitment to stop the Trump Administration at all costs.
 
A good case can be made that the ability of the second Trump Administration to implement any of its policy agenda will depend primarily on whether President Trump and his appointees realize the threat the CIA poses to him and the nation. Then, the Trump Administration must give the highest priority to defanging and neutralizing the Agency — returning it to its original mission to focus on foreign intelligence — before it destroys his presidency for a second time, and our constitutional republic as well.

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