This is Donald Trump’s own nominated and confirmed CIA Director Mike Pompeo rebuking him big time. Trump is a total incompetent embarrassment.
The CIA on Saturday said its director, Mike Pompeo, "stands by" the intelligence community's declassified report that concluded Russia ran an influence campaign aimed at helping President Trump win the White House in 2016.
"The director stands by and has always stood by the January 2017 intelligence community assessment entitled: 'Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections.' The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed," a spokesperson for the agency said when contacted by The Hill.
Ted Lieu has a great assessment of the situation, as always.
Trump is LYING.
This is Trump, who still believes Vladimir Putin over America’s Intel community and his own CIA Director. Outrageous and yet, no outrage from Republicans.
Trump said he believes Putin "means it" when he denies that Russia meddled in the election.
"He just -- every time he sees me, he says, 'I didn't do that.' And I believe -- I really believe that when he tells me that, he means it," Trump said. "But he says, 'I didn't do that.' I think he's very insulted by it, if you want to know the truth."
Tom Browkaw sums up the silence from the Republicans.
Could you imagine if a Democrat was doing something as outrageous as siding with Putin over America’s Intelligence community? Instead, crickets from the GOP.