Just Saying | So the CIA and FBI are the good guys because you hate Trump?
Yonden Lhatoo marvels at the role reversal of America’s intelligence agencies from the villains of history to champions of democracy, all because they can’t get along with a belligerent president who just does not trust them.
“I don’t see any reason why it would be [Russia that interfered in the 2016 presidential election],” was his jaw-dropping reply when asked whether he trusted his own intelligence agencies’ conclusions about meddling by Moscow.
Trump’s dogged refusal to criticise or confront Putin, who was standing right next to him on the world stage, appalled Americans across the political divide. How could the president of the United States throw his own spy masters under the bus, in full public glare, by accepting the word of such a ruthless strongman and adversary over theirs?
So, facing an uproar back home in Washington, including cries of “treason” and “Putin’s puppet”, Trump tried to back-pedal with what has to be the most asinine and cringeworthy excuse ever.
“The sentence should have been: ‘I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t’ or ‘why it wouldn’t be Russia’,” he clarified. “Sort of a double negative.”