One of the great hypocrisies of the Trump era is Democrats’ selective faith in the intelligence community.

For years, Democrats demanded blind trust in the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department. They chastised Americans for questioning “the professionals” and warned that skepticism itself was a threat to democracy. That posture held right up until Donald Trump began putting outsiders in charge.

As long as the intelligence bureaucracy was staffed with “their people,” Democrats were content. The moment President Trump began disrupting entrenched, politicized actors within these agencies, panic set in, and they raised concerns about “politicization.”

They cried foul when Kash Patel moved to remove openly partisan actors from sensitive roles. They exploded when Tulsi Gabbard revoked security clearances from former intelligence officials who disgraced themselves by falsely branding the Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation” and signing the now-debunked letter. (RELATED: CIA Analysts Who Helped Cook Up Phony Russiagate Intel Still Thriving In Deep State, Former Spy Says)

And when the intelligence community reached conclusions that did not damage Trump, Democrats abruptly decided it could no longer be trusted.

The Left even invented a bizarre conspiracy theory to avoid accepting the 

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