As A Candidate, Trump Asked FBI In Intelligence Briefing: 'Are The Russians Bad?'

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https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-fbi-russian-interference-transcript-015814295.html

When the FBI gave candidate Donald Trump his first intelligence briefing in 2016 and warned that foreign agents might try to infiltrate his campaign, Trump asked, “Are the Russians bad?” according to an official summary of the meeting obtained by Politico.

The summary was filed as part of Operation Hurricane, the code name for the FBI investigation launched in August 2016 into suspected Kremlin interference in that year’s election and possible ties to the Trump campaign.

Trump-appointed Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified and released the summary of the briefing this week at the behest of Senate Republicans looking to present the FBI as targeting Trump even before his election.

But Trump’s own comments about Russia, related in the FBI summary, place him in a less-than-favorable light — revealing him to be either incredibly gullible and unsophisticated in his understanding, or deliberately disingenuous about Russia.

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1. Obviously the latter.

"either incredibly gullible and unsophisticated in his understanding, or deliberately disingenuous about Russia.
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Trump had multi-hundreds of millions of laundered Russian rubles invested in his core businesses. Of course he wanted to normalize the US/Russian relations in his favor.