nurseangela wrote:
androbot01 wrote:
Trump has told the CIA in no uncertain terms that he does not trust the information they provide them with. Then he goes to the CIA, stands in front of their memorial and talks about crowd sizes. For God's sake, could he not just thank them for their service?
Did you not read what I posted? He said he is totally behind them.
The Atlantic: Trump Blames his Rift With the CIA on the Media In his first speech after the inauguration Trump tried to patch things up with the FBI and CIA.Quote:
Trump has castigated both the CIA, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, over everything from their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s role in Benghazi and her private email server, to their inquiries into hacks on the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) emails. But in his speech, he sought to blame his rift with the intelligence community on the press, implying the conflict was simply the invention of a hostile media.
The speech started a little before 3:20 p.m., lasted about 20 minutes, and veered from topic to topic. Trump opened by saying he thought the intelligence community were “special, amazing people,” then lamented how the U.S. never won wars anymore (“When I was young we were always winning things in this country”); he brought up ISIS (“It has to be eradicated—off the face of the earth!”); he mentioned the numerous occasions on which he’s appeared on the cover of Time magazine (“I have been on that cover 14 or 15 times”). He seemed to spiral around why he had come, making political jabs at the media to mixed success.
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Since winning the election Trump has chosen only to receive intelligence briefings once a week instead of each day, calling them repetitive, and leading some to question whether he held the agencies in much regard. At times, he has praised the intelligence community when they do something he approves of—like reopening their investigation into Clinton’s emails—and scolded them in statements or via Twitter when they do something that might harm his image.
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“They sort of made it like I had a feud with the intelligence community,” he said, shrugging, as if it were ridiculous to think he’d ever done anything to disparage such “special, amazing people.”
CNBC: Ex-CIA Boss Brennan, Others Rip Trump Speech in Front of MemorialQuote:
Former CIA Director Brennan is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump's despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA's Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,"
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I read what you posted, but you are wrong. Trump is going to dismantle the intelligence agencies.