Trump Is STILL Ignoring His Intelligence Briefings

We’ve seen this episode before: A President who believes that he is either too good or too busy to be bothered by daily intelligence briefings. It didn’t end well for the US the last time, and it won’t this time either. Donald Trump has had just 17 intelligence briefings in the last 85 days, yet he constantly appears in the media talking about foreign policy issues that turn out to be 100% wrong. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains the dangers of Trump’s arrogance and negligence with regards to these briefings.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

You know, we've seen this show before back in 2001 George W dot Bush was not interested in his daily presidential, uh, intelligence briefings. He didn't want to read them, he didn't take the time to read them. And as such, he missed a dire warning about Osama bin Ladin being desperate to attack the United States on our own soil. After that happened, he started taking daily intelligence briefings. He did not miss them after that. Allegedly Barack Obama didn't do as many in-person briefings, but he read his intelligence briefing every single day. Donald trump is really not doing either of those things. He's not having in person meetings with intelligence officials and he sure as hell according to White House officials, not even reading the daily intelligence briefing that is being handed to him according to the calendars of the president's activities that just recently came out over the last 85 days, the man only attended 17 intelligence briefings.

Now again, that is actually on par with about how many in-person briefings Obama attended, except the difference is that officials within this White House or freely admitting that trump's not reading the daily written report, even after they had to pare it down to a single page and add lots of pictures to keep his attention. Obama read his and his wasn't just one page filled with pictures. His was essentially a small report that was given to him every single morning and he would also bring up what was in that report and his cabinet meetings every single morning. Trump's not doing that. Trump is ignoring intelligence professionals and it's gonna have disastrous results just like it did when George W dot Bush ignored his briefings. And here's what I mean. In the last couple of weeks, Donald Trump has made a lot of lofty claims. He has told us that we have essentially one in Syria. We did it, you know, we beat everybody.

We got the bad guys. They're all gone. He has told us that, uh, you know, we don't really know what happened to Jamal Khashoggi over there in Saudi Arabia, who knows. Yeah, he's told us that North Korea is absolutely cooperating with their agreement and they're getting rid of their missiles and he's told us that Iran is over. They're plotting something nefarious. We don't know what it is, but they are damn sure ready to do something to harm the United States. Intelligence officials have rebutted him on every single one of those stories. Every one, every one, intelligence officials have had to come out and say no. The evidence shows that Saudi Arabia had Jamal [inaudible] killed. No intelligence shows that North Korea is still ramping up. Their nuclear intelligence officials have had to come out and say that, no, we did not defeat any of the bad guys in Syria, and you're lying about that and for and honestly, it's shocking.

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