Intelligence Officials Say Trump Is Dead Wrong About North Korea

Donald Trump insists that things are going great with North Korea, and that he’s very close to getting the country to give up their nuclear ambitions. But Intelligence Officials within the administration told Congress this week that nothing could be further from the truth. And it isn’t just North Korea that the President is getting wrong – they say that he’s also wrong about Iran and Syria. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Yesterday, members of the intelligence community submitted their written assessments on the basically the state of the world, right? We had Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, basically the highest of the highest up and our intelligence communities. He had to submit his written statement about, you know, what threats are out there against the United States, how are things going with our negotiations with other countries in terms of security issues? What's really happening out there? Dan Coats and coats in his written statement to the Senate, basically told us that Donald Trump is 100 percent wrong about every foreign policy issue that he is talking about. Specifically coats called him out, as did the heads of the CIA, DIA, NSA, about North Korea. They said, this guy has no idea. We do not believe that North Korea is denuclearized even though Donald Trump has said that repeatedly and recent tweets, he said that things are going great.

He's made so much progress with them, and then the leaders of our intelligence communities came up and said, uh, he hasn't done anything. In fact, we think that North Korea, we have evidence, satellite photos and all of that, that shows that they're actually increasing their nuclear ambitions. So literally everything Trump says, the opposite of that has happened. They say this same thing about Syria in their written assessment. You know, Trump funtown us, we, we, we defeated Isis in Syria. We're done. We did it. They're gone. We're defeating them all over the Middle East intelligence community says, yeah, that didn't happen. Other countries have also said, yeah, that's not the case. They're still there. They're not close to being depleted. What the hell are you talking about, Mr Trump. But here's the thing. And they also said he's been totally wrong about Iran as well, which we all know that John Bolton before he, uh, you know, got his eyes on Venezuela, was hell bent on attacking Iran, but at least now you know, maybe we'll have a war a little bit closer to home.

Um, nonetheless, Donald Trump has no idea what is actually happening around the globe. He thinks that things went well with North Korea when in fact nothing changed except for the fact that again, according to the assessments, they're actually increasing their nuclear capabilities. Trump didn't fix that, but he tells us he did the situation in Syria. Trump didn't fix that, but he tells us he did situation with Iran. Trump didn't fix that, but he tells us that he did. None of this is working, but what's even scarier is the fact that we have a president who doesn't understand that he is losing. There is no good outcome for the United States in Syria. We should not be there. We should be providing humanitarian aid for the millions of people whose lives we have helped destroyed. That is what we should be doing in Syria. As for North Korea, I'm all for diplomatic talks.

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