Ex-intel chief responds to Trump's 'liar' dig: 'This is normal now'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 02/07/2018 08:21 AM EST
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday that he is unfazed by taunts from President Donald Trump, lamenting on CNN that such rhetoric has become “the new normal.”
Trump listed Clapper this week among the “biggest liars and leakers in Washington,” a group that the president said also includes Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan. Asked if the attack bothered him, Clapper said “no, it doesn’t.”
“That, in itself, I think, is kind of a sad commentary. I remember thinking when he tweeted out about Sally Yates and me choking at this hearing, that had I showed up in the oval office in the last administration and President Obama commented to me, ‘hey, you really choked on this hearing,’ I’d have been devastated,” he continued. “But now it doesn't seem to matter and that in itself is a sad commentary because it’s just – this is normal now. And that is part of the regrettable situation we find ourselves in where the discourse in Washington has gotten so crude and so coarse that people are starting to be jaded to it.”
Clapper, among the Obama-era officials who have made relatively frequent appearances on cable news over the past year, has been harshly critical of Trump, at one point labeling the president’s performance at an Arizona rally last summer “disturbing” and questioning his fitness for office.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/07/james-clapper-responds-trump-liar-tweet-395966
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