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Trump Is Unbriefable
July 6, 2020 at 5:45 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/06/what-was-trump-told-by-his-intelligence-briefers/
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Chris Whipple: Another question may be as important: How does Trump absorb information? For decades, the presidents daily briefs have sounded early warnings on everything from enemy troop movements to pandemics to terrorist attacks. Yet under Trump, the presidents intelligence briefings have almost completely broken down. His oral briefings, given daily to most presidents, now take place as rarely as once or twice a week. These sessions often turn into monologues in which the president spitballs woolly conspiracy theories from Breitbart, Fox News and hangers-on at Mar-a-Lago, say intelligence officials who are familiar with his briefings. Convinced that the intelligence community is a deep state, honeycombed with traitors, the president rarely believes anything the CIA tells him.
In short, Trump is unbriefable.
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(52,208 posts)pwb
(11,261 posts)I made that up. I think.
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(58,785 posts)playing to his whackjob base, has been the key to his success and that he gets in trouble when he deviates.