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11/09/16 5:28 PM
Danielle Moodie-Mills was part of the CBC panel for last night's election coverage and, alongside CNN's Van Jones, delivered one of the night's breakout moments. She spoke with pain in her voice about Donald Trump's election, and the climate which has allowed him to defeat Hillary Clinton and take power.
In a segment which aired before the result was announced, Moodie-Mills described the election as "white supremacy's last stand," and added, "This was hatred on a level that we have not seen since Jim Crow. We underestimated as Americans how deep our hatred was of 'the other.'"
Later on, Moodie-Mills called on Hillary Clinton to be critical of the new President when she comes to address the public in the wake of her loss.
"America is flipped on its head right now," she said. "I would rather Hillary Clinton stand up and say 'I am gravely disappointed in America right now. I thought we were better than this. This was never about me. This was about all of you. This was about the America you wanted to see. We have had 44 Presidents that are men. This was never about being a woman candidate, it was about being a progressive candidate and today we voted to turn the clock back. "
“Holy shit,” one US intelligence official said. Asked if they were dumbfounded, they said: “Find me someone who isn’t.”
The problem with Trump, several officials pointed out, is that no one knows who his team would be if he indeed took office. Obama, they said, at least had a deep bench.
“Obama himself may not have [known the issues], but he’d been being tutored an entire year by various people,” said a former Bush Administration official involved in the Obama transition. “They were people who previously had security clearances, knew the issues. These were seasoned centrists, pretty much up-to-speed NatSec hands. On a Trump team, unlike the Obama people, none of us have any idea who might serve on a transition team.”
Even Wednesday, rumors were thin on who Trump might tap to lead his intelligence community. Reports swirled about possible cabinet appointments, but there was little to indicate who Trump would choose to fill key intelligence posts, including the Director of National intelligence, the Director of the CIA and the Director of the DIA.
As for the days ahead, there’s optimism, the intelligence official said, that Trump’s lack of experience may leave him open to guidance and advice, and allow more experience minds to “reign in” some of the President-elect’s more extreme ideas.
