things that president trump either actively worked against or served as a thorn in the side of national security professionals who were trying to push these things through. security clearances, giving it to people like jared kushner, whom career officials thought was unsuited for such a clearance. 702. the president got himself involved in that process at the last minute and started spreading conspiracy theories on twitter that this was what was used to spy on his campaign. and of course election security. something that by several accounts president trump s underlings can t even bring up in his presence because it makes him feel insecure. it makes him feel his electoral victory has been delegitimized. look, i think it is noteworthy that it was only several days ago that dan coats nominated and essentially appointed this election security czar and now all of a sudden he is out of a job. if people like dan coats are not