Posted on 08/22/2024 12:55:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Donald Trump told the Daily Mail on Wednesday that he doesn’t want briefings from U.S. intelligence agencies because it could lead to him being accused of leaking classified information.
‘I don’t want them, because, number one, I know what’s happening. It’s very easy to see what’s happening … because as soon as I get that, they’ll say that I leaked it,” he said.
“So, the best way to handle that situation is, I don’t need that briefing. They come in, they give you a briefing, and then two days later, they leak it, and then they say, ‘You leaked it’ … So the only way to solve that problem is not to take it I don’t want it understood. I’ll have plenty of them when I get in,” he said.
Trump doesn’t want intelligence briefings pic.twitter.com/yD1RfJvh6Z — Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) August 22, 2024
According to the Daily Mail, intelligence briefings have been regularly given to presidential nominees since President Harry Truman introduced them in the early 1950s.
Former presidents also typically receive briefings, but the Biden regime barred Trump from receiving them when it took control in 2021.
“I just think that there is no need for him to have the intelligence briefings,” Joe Biden reportedly said weeks after assuming office.
The FBI has shown itself to be willing to kill Trump over allegations of mishandling info.
In August 2022, the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach as part of the Justice Department’s investigation of him mishandling classified information. Search warrants unsealed earlier this year revealed that the FBI authorized the use of deadly force in that raid - in a move federal agents deemed “standard operating procedure,” but which received heavy criticism from conservatives and libertarians.
A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents-related criminal case against Trump last month, saying the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith violated the Constitution. The DOJ has appealed that decision.
The case could be appealed and go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The basis for arguing that Smith was illegitimate was initially laid out in an amicus curiae brief by former Ronald Reagan attorney general Ed Meese that was filed with the Supreme Court for Trump v. U.S., the case considering Trump’s presidential immunity in Smith’s Washington, D.C., case.
Good, he knows how evil our government currently is.
They’ll do the same thing WHEN he’s president. The Russia tapes were a classic example - brief Trump that there are allegations that he had hookers pee on him just so they could leak it to the press as credible since it came up in a briefing.
He sees the DOJ and the FBI as the cocksuckers they are.
“So, the best way to handle that situation is, I don’t need that briefing. They come in, they give you a briefing, and then two days later, they leak it, and then they say, ‘You leaked it’ … So the only way to solve that problem is not to take it I don’t want it understood. I’ll have plenty of them when I get in,” he said.
Trump now seems to understand exactly the sort of shitbag vermin he is dealing with. If he can overcome the vote fraud and win the election, he needs to rout out the corruption in our government agencies.
A very wise decision.
I hope to God he sends thousands of those corrupt bastards to prison. Our nation needs many thousands of corrupt government employees to go to prison. We have to root out the corruption or we will not survive.
Prison- no
Dirt naps- yes
But Trump is way nicer than I am
We will be lucky if we can even get prison for them.
Well put!
On the BED, not on him. The story was that he asked them to pee on the bed because Obama had stayed there.
Yeah, I know it hardly matters if you don't get the specifics of a completely invented story right.
He’s learning.
I hope he applies that knowledge to cabinet and other appointments.
Unbelievable that we’ve come to this point, but he’s right.
One positive thought.
Trump would never have a mandate to obliterate the Deep State without the Deep State’s declared war against Trump starting in 2015/16.
When he is POTUS, he can declassify anything he wants.
They are evil and rogue.
Appoint Vivek as the Swamp Killer. Forensic accounting audits of the top personnel in the FBI and CIA. I bet their balance sheets will be shocking.
The intelligence services have done so much damage to their credibility and to their operations, all in the name of stopping Trump, that it will take years of purging to restore their integrity.
They are the Stasi, FSB and NKVD all rolled into one. They call themselves Americans.
On top of what Trump said, how can he trust departments of the government that literally WANT HIM DEAD?
Best option, if he needs information, is to get an encrypted phone and use it to call Chairman She or Putin or Iran or North Korea, to get the TRUTH, or at least something closer to the truth than our own 3-letter agencies would ever give him.
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