Establishment Thinks They Own the Government

Tulsi Gabbard fired two officials from the National Intelligence Council after they, out of the blue, released a report contradicting the Trump Administration’s policy on Tren de Aragua. 

You would think that an administration cleaning out officials held over by the prior administration, especially ones drawing outside the lines and contradicting the current president’s policies, would be a perfectly ordinary thing. 

Can you imagine if Barack Obama or Joe Biden patting a Bush or Trump official hanging around their administrations if they release a report trashing their policies? Of course not, because no president wants foxes inside the henhouse. As Barack Obama said, “elections have consequences.”

Or at least they are supposed to. But do they really?

John Brennan on Tulsi Gabbard firing a few deep state operatives: “This whole thing just makes me livid.” pic.twitter.com/T5lXOb0OHI

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 15, 2025

Not if the establishment has its way. As you can see from all the injunctions being pushed out on everything from Trump reducing the size of the federal government, stopping the bleeding on federal spending, closing the spigot on Democrat/NGO coalitions raiding the Treasury, and just about anything else, the establishment is fine with rotating figureheads at the top, but not with any real changes to how government runs or who gets to make the rules. 

Trump was elected to clean out the Augean Stables, and the establishment is damming the river so the excrement stays where it is. 

“Don’t touch that! It’s mine!”

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has fired the National Intelligence Council’s top two officials over what the Trump administration has called the “politicization of intelligence,” Fox News Digital first reported Wednesday.

The big picture: The firing of acting NIC chair Mike Collins and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, comes after an intel report from the council last week contradicted an administration assertion linking Venezuela’s Maduro regime to the criminal gang Tren de Aragua.

What they’re saying: “These Biden holdovers were dismissed because they politicized intelligence,” said Gabbard’s deputy chief of staff, Alexa Henning, on X.

• She added that “the leak of classified info was a NIC product, which is against the law, that is the issue,” as she pushed back on a Washington Post report saying Gabbard had “removed or sidelined officials perceived to not support Trump’s political agenda.”

The officials in question committed a serious no-no: as members of the Executive Branch, they contradicted the president and his National Security Advisor and released a report that claimed that the president was full of it. If they believed that was the case–and frankly, I doubt they really do– their responsibility was to either go along or resign and make their case to the public as private citizens. 

While working for the president, especially when his powers as Commander-in-Chief are implicated–you don’t get to make your own case to the public. It’s intelligence, for God’s sake.

But as you can see with John Brennan’s reaction–Brennan, by the way, is one of the worst people alive, having abused his power as CIA Director to SPY ON CONGRESS and having committed perjury before the same body–says aloud what we all know the establishment thinks: they own the government, and having an outsider come in is enraging. 

The Democrats and Pravda keep saying that Trump is an illegitimate president, and in their eyes, he really is. On that point, they are not lying. Only presidents who play by their rules and do what they want can be legitimate. The mere fact that what he is doing is both legal and what he was elected to do is utterly irrelevant. 

They view Washington, D.C., the way you and I view our abodes: they are kings of the castle, and Trump is an interloper. 

Brennan thinks he still runs our intelligence community, and so do many others still inside. It is theirs to do with as they please. 

How dare Trump invade their homes and redecorate?