David Gergen on CNN: He would have been briefed "instantaneously".

[mobeau69]

Yep, he’s a tool of Russia. There can be no doubt.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The lie is he didnt know, 45 million traitors now believe that lie

[dem4evah]

8. meh...

he's out of his element. Has been since day 1.

[hay rick]

29. By traitors you mean Republicans?

It's hard not to think of them as synonymous.

[Eliot Rosewater]

30. If the shoe fits, anyone who does not believe that is a traitor by choice

[Iliyah]

2. I fear for our troops overseas . .

seriously.

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. +1

[sheshe2]

5. With COVID and the DICKtater combined.

I fear for them as well, Iliyah.

[uponit7771]

31. +1

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Even if he wasn't briefed on it then, he knows about it now and chose to go golfing.

What an utter incompetent tool.

[mobeau69]

14. Hell, he tried to get Putin back in the G7 after he was briefed.

He probably knew before he was briefed.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, They're not saying the story isn't true just that they weren't told about it which is slightly

... less bad.

[Nevilledog]

21. I disagree. It's equally bad.

Other choices were that his people were too incompetent to advise him or they refused to advise him because he's a Russian asset.

[uponit7771]

28. Whoa, either is horrible

[SergeStorms]

34. I'm sure Trump called Putin...

and Vlad told Donnie that there was no way he'd do anything like that, and that U.S. intelligence agencies are lying about him again, just so Donnie won't be re-elected. U.S. intelligence agencies just hate Donnie so much because of his superior intellect. And no more was ever spoken about the subject.

[wnylib]

41. I'm sure that Trump knew before

the briefing. His calls to Putin were on how to handle the fallout politically if it became public knowledge.

[Cha]

6. He knew.. trump is a traitor to the USA.

Link to tweet

[Marcuse]

44. Putin: "I'm done with paying bounties. Recall your military cadets back to New York."

[gratuitous]

7. Don't forget the rule of Trump

No matter what you hear initially, when the whole story comes out, it's always worse. Always.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. Great point.

Also, though, however bad, his cult stays loyal.

[Botany]

9. From a GOP person who worked for Bush 41, McCain, & Kasich

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Link to tweet

[MyOwnPeace]

11. The work of a traitor..........

TREASON is the word-of-the-day!

[BigmanPigman]

43. And he invited the Taliban to Camp David a little while ago.

[LiberalArkie]

10. To me he has always acted like he did not want to run or win the election. He did everything

he could to piss off people and make everyone mad. It always seemed to me that it was like a scene in a mafia movie."Either you do this or we will kill every member of your family and every member of their families."

[Boomerproud]

26. That theory, and you may be correct, makes the

cult even more frightening.

[MoonchildCA]

12. I don't know, but I could almost believe he didn't know.

He has such a short attention span, can’t absorb much information, and can’t think critically.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t brief him on much of anything. What’s the point?

[tinrobot]

15. When the news is good, he did it all by himself. When it is bad, he knows nothing.

[mwb970]

22. This is a variation on a familiar conservative pattern.

If a conservative succeeds, he alone is responsible. If he fails, the government held him back.

[AZ8theist]

39. Great Sgt Shultz pic!!!!

[dalton99a]

13. Trump always pays attention when it comes to Russia.

[TNNurse]

16. Who told him?

Who else knew? It was not just Trump. Intelligence people could have leaked to enough people to get it out.

This needs to be there a story about this on every network every night and every morning. It needs as much coverage as the virus.

[Sunny Daze]

17. +1000

[Hassler]

18. Still waiting for Pompous Pompeo to resign in disgust.

Yeah, no, not happening from that grovelling Bible grifter.

[erronis]

24. pompeous is only disgusted when his lardness isn't given credit for f'in up another treaty.

pompeous doesn't have any skills outside of being a shitty politician and a destroyer of decency.

Where, oh where would pompeous go after losing this job? Moscow, Brazil, Hungary? Other dictatorships that need a corpulent bloviator?

[uponit7771]

19. Notice Red Don isn't saying the story is false, he's saying he wasn't briefed which is like ...

... saying Trump didn't swallow all of it this time.

[Cracklin Charlie]

23. When was Trump trying to bring the taliban to Camp David?

I think this story has the potential to be huge!

[yellowcanine]

25. If he was not briefed, a bunch of people should be fired. But of course he was briefed.

Which means a bunch of people should have resigned, beginning with the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State, not to mention the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the head of the CIA.

[mobeau69]

27. It's CYA time if you can. Some, that can, will sing like birds.

This ain’t no break in at the DNC.

[crickets]

35. Excellent

point.

I wonder how those in uniform feel about their highest commanding officers right now.

Trust?

Everything he touches,

dies.

[liberalla]

32. There is NO doubt.

[genxlib]

33. No knowing would be almost as bad to me

What kind of President is so disconnected from his job that this would not be front and center on his desk. What kind of staff would keep it from him

[wnylib]

42. I don't think he needed to be briefed.

I suspect that he knew before our intelligence people knew.

[underpants]

37. Did they not trust him with the information?

That’s a real possibility

Gergen is the one guy I stop and listen to when he’s on the air. Others are entertaining but Gergen is the real deal with deep contacts.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

38. I think the IC has had enough and is doing their part to ensure he is flushed. nt

[llashram]

40. with trump and Vlad

being such besties, there has to be a hotel room tape in some vault somewhere in the Kremlin. This fucker not caring about our troops in harm's way is disgusting and treasonous.