And they’re lying. The President can either believe Russia or he can believe our country’s intel chiefs, generals, cabinet secretaries, and diplomats who’ve all said the same thing: Russia interfered in the 2016 election, and they’ll be back in 2018.
The President can either believe his Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…
The President can either believe his Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. nypost.com/2018/05/23/pom…
The President can either believe his FBI Director Chris Wray, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. newsweek.com/fbi-director-c…
The President can either believe his NSA Director and head of US Cyber Command General Nakasone, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. latimes.com/politics/la-na…
The President can either believe his Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. thedailybeast.com/secdef-mattis-…
The President can either believe the unanimous conclusion of our intelligence community, or he can believe Vladimir Putin. dni.gov/files/document…
Reminder: our entire IC leadership stands by that conclusion.
So does the entire Senate Intel Committee, Republicans and Democrats alike.
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For a while it even seemed like the President had gotten the message.
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But no, here we are less than a month away from a Presidential summit with Vladimir Putin, and the President is openly taking Putin’s word over our own intelligence community.
This is dangerous, this is weak, and it’s yet another slap in the face to the intelligence professionals who quite literally risk their lives to gather this kind of intelligence.
Make no mistake: the President just gave Russia the green light to once again interfere in US Elections.
