Trump calls his own intel chiefs 'extremely passive and naive'
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told members of the committee that ISIS continues to pose a threat in Syria
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From left: FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats arrive to testify Tuesday before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on “worldwide threats.” (Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Trump on Wednesday lashed out at his own intelligence chiefs a day after they gave a Senate committee assessments of foreign threats that radically differed from his own.
On Tuesday, the directors of the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency and national intelligence testified publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee that China and Russia currently pose the biggest risks to the United States.
Their views on relations with North Korea, Iran and Syria were conspicuously at odds with what Trump has said about those countries.
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Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told members of the committee that ISIS continues to pose a threat in Syria. (Trump, in announcing plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, said, “We have defeated ISIS in Syria.”)
Trump's years of experience in making real estate deals in New York, Atlantic City,etc uniquely qualify him to give expert testimony about what's really going on inside of North Korea, Russia, the Middle East, etc, etc. (And that's to say nothing of his first hand knowledge of military affairs gained by his years of highly decorated service to our country during his exemplary career in the military!
(/sarc)
Coats said North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons. (Trump has said the country no longer poses a threat, and that he “solved” the crisis with the rogue nuclear nation .)
I have always found Mr. Trump to be a bit of a shall we say dolt. This latest absurd blurb has elevated Him to downright stupid.
Look not only to what POTUS says, but what he does. The latter, for anyone that studies history and global matters is really scary.
Yes, we all know trump is the world's foremost authority on everything doncha know.
He's the most smartest guy in the whole wide world. Just ask him