Trump Asks If Outgoing CIA Chief Was Leaker of Fake News

[sabra]

Source: Bloomberg

President-elect Donald Trump appeared to suggest that outgoing CIA Director John Brennan may have been behind the publication last week of unverified and salacious intelligence connecting the president-elect to Russia.

The comments on Twitter came hours after Brennan, in an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” called the Republican’s recent remarks about the U.S. intelligence community “outrageous,” and suggested that Trump’s overtures to improve relations with Russia are naïve.

Trump retorted to his 20 million Twitter followers, “@FoxNews ‘Outgoing CIA Chief, John Brennan, blasts Pres-Elect Trump on Russia threat. Does not fully understand.’ Oh really, couldn’t do much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?”

Brennan’s earlier comments came amid escalating tensions between the president-elect and the intelligence community following a series of insults and allegations by Trump in recent weeks.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-15/cia-director-airs-warnings-for-trump-amid-intelligence-tensions

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[Pyke]

1. Seriously does he have no shame?

[riversedge]

4. No, Trump has no shame at all.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Does he have a brain?

Brennan is not some low-level flunkie.

He is the Director of the CIA!

[groundloop]

27. Yeah, well.... Comey is the Director of the FBI.

Just sayin'

Although I have much more faith in Brennan than Comey. In any case tRump is a complete fucking idiot to dismiss the intelligence community.

[mobeau69]

10. No shame and no sense whatsoever.

I think he's panicking. Totally out of control.

[blueseas]

40. Seems none at all - WELCOME

To DU

[dalton99a]

2. Awesome genius move.

[Chasstev365]

3. Keep Dissing the CIA, dumbass!

If he keeps it up, I see a coup in the near future.

[cstanleytech]

21. I doubt that it would cause a coup but it could cause anything criminal and or

embarrassing that they have on him to leak.......... accidentally of course.

[C_U_L8R]

5. The grand orange whizzer

claims to know something about leaking.
Isn't that special.

[mobeau69]

6. Thanks. That's hot off the press.

I heard it on CNN but it wasn't on google yet.

Something big has got to be going down.

[left-of-center2012]

7. Imagine four years of Trump

[mobeau69]

11. Four years? LOL

We're going to be stuck with evil Mike Pee.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

9. Hope the other shoe drops soon.

[SunSeeker]

12. Shitler continues to make shit up. Disgusting.

[paleotn]

15. Shitler. I love that. Can I borrow it?

[SunSeeker]

17. Sure, especially since I borrowed it.

[Chasstev365]

22. I like "HAIR" TWITLER!

[SunSeeker]

26. LOL. But, there's so many good ones out there, no need to confine yourself to one.

[Thinkingabout]

13. Probably the four hundred pound man sitting on the side of a bed somewhere.

Probably was Putin's machine if it is fake, have a feeling it will be a true story. This is on Trump, he could release the details himself, have his story certified like he wanted of Obama and thev birth certificate.

[paleotn]

14. If I were an elected offical...

...the last group I'd want to get in a fight with is the US intelligence community. "Oh, remember that hookers and blow party in St. Louis back on April 12, 1989 between 10pm and 3 am, downtown Hyatt, room 519? Be a shame if hard evidence of that ended up in some reporter's in-box."

[jalan48]

16. Trump will need to get total control or he's fucked.

[milestogo]

18. Sooner or later he's gonna be fucked.

[jalan48]

24. I think so-it's almost like he's asking for it.

[milestogo]

29. Because he never really wanted the job.

Status, power, money - yes. But the more he finds out what the job actually entails, the more he'll keep defying the rules, until he gets impeached. And then we'll get stuck with Pence, who is less chaotic but just as awful in his own way.

[mobeau69]

19. Too many career people for that to happen for very long. n/t

[jalan48]

25. Yep-he's not acting in a reality TV show anymore.

[TeamPooka]

20. Trump must be metally retarded. nt

[mobeau69]

28. Sam Harris on Trump: "The Pandering Primate"

[Plucketeer]

23. Time for pitchforks

and comfortable walking shoes.

[OldRedneck]

30. Trump just doesn't understand . . .

Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

And don't pick a fight with the people who have the secrets. Brennan will leave but the professional staff will stay and they are PISSED.

[Solly Mack]

31. Trump is relying far too much on the better nature of intelligence agencies.

He attacks, thinking he holds all the cards.

I am amazed, sincerely amazed, at that level of stupidity.

[6000eliot]

32. Aren't those all areas about which he and Putin apparently share opinions?

[snort]

33. What Time is it?

[bucolic_frolic]

34. Paranoia on Display

It's going to be a long 4 years, but truly, I doubt we'll live that long

[roamer65]

35. Fuck off, Dump.

[benld74]

36. SAD little Peetus he is

[keithbvadu2]

37. Donald is not as comfortable with the CIA as he is with Comey's Republican FBI.

[royable]

38. We really, really need to have some high-res video leaked,

some utterly repulsive and abhorrent crystal-clear video of Drumpf's Russian escapades, to put this "fake news" blather to bed.

[world wide wally]

39. Ley us stop talking falsely now... The hour's getting late