The whole Trump-CIA-saga, summed up in six short statements:

[DetlefK]

http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/

"Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak' into the public...Are we living in Nazi Germany?"
-- Trump tweet

"They sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community."
-- Trump on the media, speaking at CIA in front of Memorial Wall

"People [who were listening to Trump] spend their lives trying to figure out what's true, so it's hard to make the case that the media created a feud with Trump. It just ain't so."
-- CIA veteran John McLaughlin

"He used the scene as a prop for another complaint about the media and another bit of braggadocio...That Trump made no mention of those whom that wall memorializes, made his performance doubly offensive."
-- Paul Pillar, former National Intelligence Officer in charge of the Middle East and South Asia

"What self-centered, irrational decision process got him to this travesty?"
-- CIA veteran John MacGaffin

"Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!"
-- Trump tweet

[davsand]

1. Either way, my advice to him would be stay out of Dallas.

Seriously.





Laura

[murielm99]

2. I don't think he will be going anywhere.

Soon, he will be so unpopular that he will be holed up in the White House, or in his New York City tower, more isolated than Nixon. If he does go anywhere, the people will be in the streets, shouting, demonstrating, creating gridlock.

[CottonBear]

3. He's gonna be unwelcome everywhere.

He's going to be holed up in the White House for the next four years.

There's no security bubble zone around Trump Tower like there is around the White House.

[Fast Walker 52]

6. I don't think the CIA will knock off Trump

at this point, anyway. What happened with JFK was a unique circumstance and more to do with Allan Dulles than the CIA.

[gordianot]

4. For those around especially Spicer and Conway look for the phrase:

"Mr. Trump believes"
They know Mr. Trump is not rational, they are spouting the words and beliefs of someone with deep mental issues. Like Lawrence O'Donnel pointed out at last night on The Last Word, at some point those closest to him are going to have to say "I quit". Abandoned and isolated Trump will attempt do what he does best, get attention. We have a traitor and mad man in the Oval Office.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. it's an untenable situation that I just can't see ending well