DNI Dan #Coats is very reassuring in interview with @mitchellreports. He's not afraid to speak the truth, even opposing Trump. He emphasized #Russia is by far the biggest cyber threat, which is where wars are fought today. But he had no idea Lavrov/Kislyak were coming to the WH🤯 
@mitchellreports @ODNIgov Schizophrenia: DNI Coats just confirmed sane ppl in govt are working to protect us from threat of Russia. Congress rebukes Trump in 98-0 vote. Coats didn't know Trump just invited Putin—who ordered attacks on our election—to US in fall. To observe his operations in the midterms??
Trump is intent on normalizing Putin. All the post-summit clean up was cover. He invites Putin to WH, doesn't tell Coats. And we now know that Trump has been knowling lying—waging his own disinformation campaign—about Russia's attack which put him in the WH. WHO IS OUR POTUS??
It sounded like laughter, but it was more like gasping. People laughed awkwardly b/c they didn't know how to process the shock. That's how @juliaioffe just described the moment when DNI Coats learned that #Russia's #Putin had been invited to the WH, announced by @PressSec tweet
Whoa @jheil suggests Trump was watching DNI Coats' interview today and was so angry, he trolled him by having Sarah Sanders tweet that shocking invitation to Putin to come to Washington. That would make Trump more of an SOB than even I imagined. @Lawrence @TheLastWord #LastWord
