Trump Distracts From Today's Intelligence Meeting With Talk of TV Ratings and 'Apprentice'
by J.D. Durkin | 8:26 am, January 6th, 2017
At stake Friday is the highly-anticipated meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and key leaders of the intelligence community to discuss Russia’s interference on the general election.
The meeting is scheduled for just one day after the director of national intelligence James Clapper gave his testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, doubling down on his community’s findings of Kremlin involvement on hacking efforts. On Thursday Clapper firmly asserted that a report from the fall that there was foreign meddling in the election was more true than ever. “We stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement,” Clapper said yesterday, referring to the joint Homeland Security Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report.
But instead, Trump has found himself a few other issues of at least somewhat less consequence to focus his energies on this morning. Remarkably (as if invoking Hillary Clinton and her Hudson River fireworks extravaganza wasn’t enough this morning) Trump turned his focus onto — are you sitting down? — bragging about his television ratings.
The Complainer in Chief took to his favorite social media platform to criticize the ratings of the latest season of “Celebrity Apprentice” and its newest host Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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I had a similar thought when I saw that tweet by him yesterday!! 
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