Re: Trump Has Nearly Eliminated Intelligence Briefings From His Schedule Entirely

On 8/12/20 12:34 AM, a322x1n wrote:
> Viktor Tandofsky <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]: 
> 
>> On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 7:44:22 PM UTC-7, Miloch wrote:
>>> https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-intel-briefings-gone_n_5f32f2b9c5
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>>> WASHINGTON ¯ President Donald Trump’s interest in taking int
>> elligence briefings
>>> has been declining steadily since his first months in office and has
>>> drop 
>> ped to
>>> near zero in recent weeks, according to a HuffPost review of all of
>>> his d 
>> aily
>>> schedules.
>>>
>>> Trump went from a high of 4.1 briefings per week on average in March
>>> 2017 
>>  to 0.7
>>> per week since July 1, shortly after it became public that he had
>>> ignored intelligence reports about Russia offering bounties to the
>>> Taliban for ea 
>> ch
>>> American soldier killed in Afghanistan.
>>>
>>> Monday’s briefing, in fact, was the first in August and the first
>>  since July 22.
>>> That month had only three briefings scheduled.
>>>
>>> “It’s remarkable that, even at their peak, they never exc
>> eeded 20 per month,”
>>> said Ned Price, a former CIA analyst and a spokesman for the National
>>> Sec 
>> urity
>>> Council during the Obama administration.
>>>
>>> “And now that they are arguably more important than ever, as fore
>> ign actors are
>>> again interfering in our democracy, tensions with Beijing are
>>> swirling, a 
>> nd
>>> America’s adversaries and competitors are becoming more emboldene
>> d, the
>>> president can’t seem to find the time to be briefed,” he 
>> added.
>>>
>>> Briefings from intelligence community officials are based on a
>>> package of 
>>  report
>>> summaries from around the world prepared in the pre-dawn hours each
>>> morni 
>> ng
>>> specifically for the president. The sessions are among the few
>>> responsibi 
>> lities
>>> in the modern presidency that cannot be delegated to others.
>>>
>>> Both of Trump’s immediate predecessors took daily briefings in th
>> e White House.
>>> Republican George W. Bush typically had his shortly after his arrival
>>> in 
>> the
>>> Oval Office at 6:45 a.m. each day. Democrat Barack Obama had the
>>> written material, known as the “President’s Daily Brief,”
>>  loaded onto his iPad by 6 a.m.
>>> each day, when he would read it prior to the in-person session later
>>> in t 
>> he
>>> morning.
>>>
>>> Trump, by contrast, rarely gets to the West Wing before noon after
>>> spendi 
>> ng much
>>> of each morning watching television and posting tweets based on his
>>> viewi 
>> ng. He
>>> displayed a diligence toward intelligence briefings only briefly,
>>> upon fi 
>> rst
>>> taking office. In March 2017 he had 18 scheduled briefings on the 23
>>> avai 
>> lable
>>> weekdays. In April 2017, he had 17 briefings on the 20 available
>>> weekdays 
>> .
>>>
>>> But starting that May, right after he fired FBI Director James Comey
>>> for 
>> failing
>>> to end the investigation into the assistance his campaign received
>>> from R 
>> ussia,
>>> the frequency of his briefings fell dramatically. Up until that day,
>>> May 
>> 9,
>>> Trump had taken 54 intelligence briefings in his 110 days in office,
>>> an a 
>> verage
>>> of 3.4 per week. In the 1,200 days since then, he has received 281
>>> briefi 
>> ngs, an
>>> average of only 1.6 per week.
>>>
>>> White House officials for years have denied that Trump has been
>>> getting briefings more and more infrequently, insisting that the
>>> public schedule 
>> does
>>> not always reflect the briefings he receives. They have declined to
>>> expla 
>> in why
>>> some briefings wind up on the public schedule but not others.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, though, White House communications director Alyssa Farah
>>> said 
>> : “The
>>> president is briefed on critical intelligence daily by his national
>>> secur 
>> ity
>>> adviser, his career CIA briefer, and/or his chief of staff. He also
>>> takes 
>>  part
>>> in full formal presidential intelligence briefings near weekly or
>>> every o 
>> ther
>>> week with the CIA director, national security adviser, director of
>>> nation 
>> al
>>> intelligence, White House counsel, and usually the secretary of
>>> treasury, secretary of state, and sometime the secretary of defense
>>> in person in th 
>> e Oval
>>> Office.”
>>>
>>> Trump himself, asked about intelligence briefings in a recent
>>> interview w 
>> ith
>>> Axios, called the reports of the Russian bounties “fake news,â
>> € that they had
>>> “never reached” his desk, and that he does read the PDBs 
>> and is regularly
>>> briefed.
>>>
>>> “I read a lot. I spend a lot of time at meetings. Usually itâ
>> €™s once a day or at
>>> least two or three times a week, intelligence meetings,” Trump sa
>> id.
>>>
>>> One former top White House aide, asked on condition of anonymity
>>> whether 
>> Trump
>>> actually took more intelligence briefings than were reflected on his
>>> publ 
>> ic
>>> schedules, began laughing aloud. The aide’s reaction was the same
>>  when asked
>>> whether Trump reads the intelligence briefing books prepared for him.
>>>
>>> Trump’s last national security adviser, John Bolton, has stated p
>> ublicly that
>>> Trump does not read his intelligence briefing book and that making
>>> him ab 
>> sorb
>>> information was a difficult challenge.
>>>
>>> “He’s just not receptive to new facts,” Bolton to
>> ld CBS News last month. “The
>>> intelligence briefings don’t communicate as much information as t
>> hey should. We
>>> tried to think of ways to change that. I think it was probably a
>>> doomed e 
>> ffort.”
>>>
>>> Trump’s engagement on intelligence has become a major issue in hi
>> s reelection
>>> bid, after reports earlier this year that he ignored warnings in his
>>> PDBs 
>>  in
>>> January that a pneumonia-like virus was spreading in China. Trump did
>>> not 
>>  have a
>>> briefing on his schedule until Jan. 6, a week after Taiwanese
>>> authorities 
>>  raised
>>> the alarm with U.S. officials about an epidemic on the mainland.
>>>
>>> He then spent more than two months downplaying the virus and praising
>>> Chi 
>> na’s
>>> dictator for his great work and “transparency” in control
>> ling the coronavirus,
>>> even as it had gained a foothold in the United States and was
>>> spreading a 
>> cross
>>> the country.
>>>
>>> Months later, first The New York Times and then other outlets
>>> reported th 
>> at
>>> Trump had ignored intelligence that Russia was paying rewards of up
>>> to $1 
>> 00,000
>>> per American soldier murdered in Afghanistan. Trump has called those
>>> repo 
>> rts “a
>>> hoax” and “fake news” and acknowledged that he ha
>> s never raised the issue with
>>> Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in the numerous phone calls they have
>>> sha 
>> red
>>> this year.
>>>
>>> “Whether it’s ignoring the impending pandemic or looking 
>> the other way in
>>> response to Moscow’s bounties on our service members, Trump has d
>> emonstrated
>>> time and again that he’s not one to put America’s nationa
>> l security first,”
>>> Price said. “Especially when doing so comes into conflict with wh
>> at’s best for
>>> him politically.”
>>>
>> The Russian bounty thing was a hoax, you idiot. It was a rumor that
>> the Pentagon could not confirm. 
> 
> No, it wasn't a hoax.
> 

Given the lies that the intelligence agencies like Comey at the FBI and
Brennan of the CIA were telling TRUMP in the beginning to try to catch
TRUMP in a trap....  he is right to NOT believe them or rely on their
briefings.

The Bureaucrats in the DEEP STATE and the Marxists in the SHADOW
GOVERNMENT have undermined the security of the United States with their
petty political goals.  There may need to be a cultural cleansing of the
Government to bring it back to being a government  *OF THE PEOPLE BY*
*THE* *PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE* .






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