Trump calls intel chiefs public testimony ‘fake news’
After disputing all testimony from the top Intel chiefs in this country this week, Trump took the liberty to tell the world today that it was all "fake news".
What we have here is an authoritarian wanna be who takes his marching orders from Putin. After lying to the press today, he said the Intel admitted to misquoting themselves about their testimony, then interrupted further questions by dismissing the press. We'll, first off, no, they did not admit any misquotes. That's a lie. They said what they said, which was contrary to everything Trump has said in the past about foreign policy. And second, the biggest national security threat to this country is Trump, his Republican goons who try and cover for him, and his base. Going against our intelligence staff is our biggest threat to date, and he must be totally stopped from doing further damage.
After telling his appointees, his intelligence chiefs, they all have to return to school, on Thursday, Trump would not specifically say if he still has confidence in Coats and Haspel but made it clear that he has disagreed with his senior intelligence officials on "certain things" and
"time will prove me right, probably." Probably?
Later, he made a complete fool of himself.
"They said they were totally misquoted and totally taken out of context," Trump said when asked by CNN if he raised the testimony with Coats and Haspel during his daily briefing on Thursday.
"They said it was fake news," Trump said.
Following that incomprehensible statement, Trump tweeted, "Just concluded a great meeting with my Intel team in the Oval Office who told me that what they said on Tuesday at the Senate Hearing was mischaracterized by the media - and we are very much in agreement on Iran, ISIS, North Korea, etc. Their testimony was distorted [by the] press."
This bald faced lie is a consequence of the fact that Trump is so uninformed that he does not know the statements from Coats, Wray, and Haspel were on camera testimony before a Senate committee. The whole nation has seen the televised Senate testimony, but not Trump.
This is nothing short of incredible. Trump is a buffoon, a national security threat begging to be removed from power. Nobody could be that stupid.
I am further convinced he wants to be impeached. He will be the star in a great melodrama and it matters little to him that he will be the antagonist.