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New: President Trump's resistance to intel warnings about Russia led his national security team to verbally brief him less often on Russia-related threats to the US

(Reporting adapted from my upcoming book “The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World”)

cnn.com/2020/07/01/pol…
“According to one former senior intelligence official, the President's briefers had one simple rule with Trump: never lead with Russia.”
“It creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where he hears less and less of what he doesn't want to hear and therefore starts to believe more and more that the Russians aren't doing anything bad," a former senior NSC official said.
“Trump's briefers discovered that when his oral briefing included intelligence related to Russia's malign activities against the United States...Trump would often blow up at them, demanding to know why they kept focusing on Russia and often questioning the intelligence itself”
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A blistering indictment of Trump by his own former Defense Secretary Mattis:

“Trump is the first president In my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try..We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”
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!!: “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our
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New: Dr. Anthony Fauci tells me negative data on hydroxychloroquine is now “quite evident”.:

“I'm not so sure that it should be banned, but clearly the scientific data is really quite evident now about the lack of efficacy for it,” Fauci said. 1/
2/ On whether public officials should wear masks, Fauci told me, "I do it when I'm in the public for the reasons that, A, I want to protect myself and protect others & also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing”
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“WE'VE GOT TO KEEP DOING IT. WE'RE DOING WELL BUT WE CAN'T LET THIS MONSTER UP. WE'VE GOT THIS MONSTER DOWN A LITTLE BIT..YOU'RE STILL SEEING..A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF OHIOANS WHO ARE DYING EVERY DAY.” -Ohio GOP @GovMikeDeWine to me just now on whether to relax social distancing.
Who should make any decision to relax restrictions?

“HISTORICALLY HEALTH ISSUES LIKE THIS ARE HANDLED BY GOVERNORS, THEY ARE HANDLED BY MAYORS, AND I THINK THAT'S GENERALLY WHAT PEOPLE EXPECT.” - Gov DeWine
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