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He is one of a number of senior figures in the Trump administration including the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the new chief of staff, Stephen Miller, to leave their home to live on a military base or protected housing.

The US national intelligence chief, Jay Clayton, said last month that Tehran had “substantially increased” its efforts to target Americans in the Middle East and beyond.

These include intensifying the targeting of current and former US officials such as Bessent, the NYT reported on Tuesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 hours ago

This is weird since the trump admin never tells the truth, why are they all moving to closed locations?

[-] deadbeef79000 10 points 3 hours ago

IMHO preparing for a coup in January.

Slightly more batshit insanely: preparing for a false flag "Iranian" attack on the US.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

It could be, but they've lost most of their base. The magas may vote republican again, but I doubt there would be enough to go full coup.

[-] deadbeef79000 6 points 3 hours ago

6/1 was kind of like a "citizens coup".

This time they've already purged the military of "disloyal" brass. This time, if it actually happens, will be a military coup.

The executive is filled with sycophants and apparently has control of the military enough that it can ignore Congress.

[-] YourBestFriend@quokk.au -4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

You would ban be for answering. Lmfao. Get ready sweetie.

Edit: I meant that for your top level comment, but you know how thumbs work. Anyway, I’m choosing not to correct it because of lazy.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

I wouldn't ban you for your opinion on why they moved there. I would ban you for encouraging others to go after them. I'm thinking that it's not just Iran. These guys are shitty and evil with no loyalty and now a lot less power, they may have pissed off a lot of the wrong people.

[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

They still have the same power through much of January, unfortunately. Knowing Trump's vengefulness, I'm leaning slightly more towards the coup theory, but agree that they're unlikely to pull it off.

[-] YourBestFriend@quokk.au -3 points 2 hours ago
[-] WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

Sorry to burst your reality-denying bubble, but shitty humans are everywhere. Who's being the most shitty at any given moment rotates, but they're pretty universal & make up a rather large percentage of the entire world's population.

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