Trump singled out Dan Coats in morning rant about intelligence community
Source: CNN
President Donald Trump seethed Wednesday morning as he watched the highlights of his intelligence chiefs testifying on Capitol Hill and singled out Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats by name during his morning rant, two people with knowledge of the outburst tell CNN.
The President didn't see Coats' full testimony in front of lawmakers that took place on Tuesday, but he was furious Wednesday as he watched television chyrons blare that the officials had contradicted him. The snippets of Coats saying that North Korea had "halted its provocative behavior related to its WMD program" but was unlikely to "completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities" angered him, CNN has learned.
Trump made his displeasure with the intelligence team clear on Twitter just after 6 a.m. Wednesday, but he didn't single Coats out in his tweets like he did verbally. The President was more frustrated with the coverage than the assessments of the intelligence chiefs, who brief him on national security matters regularly.
Trump's once-wobbly relationship with Coats had finally seemed to recover after an episode over the summer sent it teetering toward the edge.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/trump-dan-coats-rant/index.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)brooklynite
(94,591 posts)The question is: how long will Coats want to work for him?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)The orange ass has fired many since being "installed" into his position.
brooklynite
(94,591 posts)Most have resigned or been told to by someone else
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)not worth arguing about. But YES, he has fired many. If I am fired by my boss, but he sends someone else in to do the dirty work, it is STILL my boss that fires me. Not the poor sot that had to voice the words. How hard is that to understand?
brooklynite
(94,591 posts)Will Mick Mulvaney bee willing to fire the Director of National Intelligence? Or, as many have in the past, will he nod his head when Trump demands Coats be fired, and then wait for Trump to forget?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Mattis walked right into the Oval Office, stood before Trump and gave him his resignation letter. There is no way in hell that Trump would look a man like Mattis in the eye and fire him. He'd have some underling do it. Trump tweeting (after someone explained the contents of the letter to him) that it was he who fired Mattis was pure revisionist history.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He gets his information from faux news.
Think about that for a minute.
Feel safe ?
SunSeeker
(51,569 posts)He figures Coats must really be concerned about Trump to put up with this much humiliating bullshit.
Will start a war with somebody to try to say his own ass.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Welcome