What's Behind Trump's Vitriol for the Intelligence Community?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Despite his handlers, and the phalanx of high-priced lawyers paid to represent him in the Russiagate investigation, and White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly's best efforts to contain him, sometimes President Trump just can't help himself. Thus it was, during an extended, highly scripted Asia tour – perhaps jet-lagged and sleep-deprived, or maybe just feeling ornery – that Trump boarded Air Force One for a flight to Hanoi and, well, just let loose. The leaders of America's spy agencies, including the CIA and the FBI? They're liars, leakers and political hacks, he proclaimed.

The president's outburst came hours after a series of private discussions – no aides, no note-takers, no media scribes listening in – with Russian President Vladimir Putin. And the bottom line? Did Putin's spies steal emails from the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta in 2016? "He did not do what they're saying he did," said Trump.

To figure out what Donald Trump really believes, it goes without saying that you should pretty much ignore his scripted speeches, White House news releases and other materials fed into the president's teleprompter. But when he's off-leash, extemporaneously responding to probes from media – or, of course, dispatching early-morning tweets from his personal cell phone – the real Trump emerges. That's what happened aboard the short flight from Danang to Hanoi this weekend.

When Trump uncorked his stream of invective, the world got an extended glimpse into the mind of a president whose administration is under siege by a dogged special counsel and several congressional committees, whose innermost aides have already been or soon will be facing indictments, and against whom evidence is piling up suggesting his campaign encouraged, cooperated with or colluded with a Russian covert operation.

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[Achilleaze]

1. Intelligence community has many veterans who served honorably

We have seen how the Republican draft dodger in chief takes every opportunity to piss on our veterans, our POWs, our Gold Star families, and our sons and daughters in uniform. Deplorable.

[benld74]

2. Lets enumerate

His lies
His crimes
His grifting
His collusion
Next,,,

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Trump realizes that his "election" was a giant sting that the NSA/CIA/FBI

ran in order to take down the Soviet moles that were installed in the U.S. during the Cold War. The ones who now run the Russian mob in this country. Putin and pals probably told him that they had "friends" in the CIA/FBI/NSA who would look the other way. Hell, maybe they actually thought they had "friends" in the U.S. intelligence community. They should have remembered who our real foreign "friends" are. Hint, they are folks who sell us stuff (China, India) or who buy our stuff (Israel, Western Europe)--not Russia.

By the time Mueller is done, the Russian Mafia will be dead in this country and Russia will have to go back to peddling nukes and small pox to terrorists to make ends meet. And since Trump is known to be an FBI informant, it is just a matter of time before his Russian Mob buddies begin to wonder where his loyalties lie. And so, he has to take every opportunity to make kissy with Putin and get in the way of the U.S. intelligence community.

Knowing how to set up a real estate swindle does not translate into having the ability to navigate the three dimensional chess that is U.S. foreign policy.

[Phoenix61]

6. I'm inclined to think you are absolutely correct

There's a reason Obama did what he did and it wasn't to play nice with Twitler. I think this investigation has been on-going for quite some time. Twilter is just the dumb sap who is going to get squeezed the hardest.

[Dawson Leery]

9. Breaking Russia should be a primary goal

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of this investigation.

They must accept the free world.

[KentuckyWoman]

4. offended by intelligence .... period.

Ferret Head wallows in the dumb more than anyone I've ever heard of.

[Irish_Dem]

5. PR campaign ahead of indictments and trials.... swaying public opinion and tainting jury pool.

He needs to denigrate America's legal system, intelligence community, FBI, Comey, Mueller, etc.

[imanamerican63]

7. They are "well educated"!

and he is "poorly educated"!

[MrsCoffee]

8. His guilt.