What has it come to? In discussing the briefing with the intelligence committee in Congress this morning on MSNBC the host commented that if the conclusion of the final report was that it was Russia’s intent to help Trump win he wouldn’t react well because this would make him personally look bad.
She said this with a straight face.
She’s talking about the president-elect.
She’s talking about a president so easily insulted and so volatile that his own advisors have to explain away his Tweets and make them seem rational.
On Capital Hill rational people, intelligence professionals, Democratic senators, Republican senators (and Independent Angus King) are grim faced and are taking the Russian cyber-attack seriously. The words are powerful and will be replayed all day.
We’ll have to watch Twitter to see whether Trump is even watching this.
This is a direct assault on his credibility.
I don’t have much to say about the context of the briefing except to sum it up by quoting what Lindsay Graham just said:
“I think Obama threw pebbles, it’s time to throw rocks.”
A slam at Obama, but also a throw-down aimed at Trump.
I think these pictures show just how seriously our intelligence professionals and several Republican senators are taking this.
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