Intelligence has become a political weapon under Trump, the Democratic nominee's advisers say.
President Donald Trump was in the middle of receiving a highly classified briefing on Afghanistan at his New Jersey golf club when he suddenly craved a malted milkshake.
“Does anyone want a malt?” he asked the senior defense and intelligence officials gathered around him, an august group that included the head of the CIA’s Special Activities Center, which is responsible for covert operations and paramilitary operations. “We have the best malts, you have to try them,” Trump insisted, as he beckoned a waiter into the room where code-word classified intelligence was being discussed.
The malt episode, which took place a few months after Trump took office in 2017, became legendary inside the CIA, said three former officials. It was seen as an early harbinger of Trump’s disinterest in intelligence, which would later be borne out by the new president’s notorious resistance to reading his classified daily briefing, known as the PDB, and his impatience with the briefers, current and former officials said.
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WNU Editor: A typical Politico post. President Trump bad. A President Biden will correct everything. But what caught my eye is an admission from those who are supporting the Biden campaign that a Biden administration will purge the intelligence community of everyone who was appointed by President Trump and/or those who support his agenda starting with the CIA Director Gina Haspel. And as to who will replace these officials that will be purged by a Biden administration. Again the Politico post is quoting sources who are very blunt and on the record (no anonymous sources/reporting here). The same gang that got fired by President Trump because of their intelligence leaks to the media, and their obstruction of the Trump agenda at the beginning of his term.
