Ms. Gabbard and wannabe smartass Mr. Ratcliffe are threats to national security because of their manifest incompetence and because of their compulsive arrogance. They are telling lies about their failures and clearly expect to be believed. Who could believe them? Of course, the Trump junkies in the MAGA base whose appetite for lies seems boundless, and Republicans must at least pretend to believe them in order to keep the BIG LIE going. But, what about the majority of the American people who will not, cannot believe their lies? They don’t really care about the rest of the American people for whom they obviously have an boundless contempt.