July
16, 2018: Trump-Putin Summit in Helsinki
(Major Trump Denial)
Former NSC Official Specializing in
Russia and Europe
(November 21, 2019: Warning for 2020 Election)
Sustained major threat to national security: Donald J. Trump - cite (NPR report):
The current impeachment drama highlights
the tension between Trump and U.S. intelligence community. But the relationship
has been tense since even before Trump took office. Over the course of his
presidency, a number of notable events have strained that relationship further.
Now, former intelligence chiefs warn that the president's suspicion of his spy
agencies could pose a real danger to U.S. national security.
On
the 2016 campaign trail for example: This story of mistrust could have
started a dozen different places. September 26, 2016, during the first
presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Trump said:
“I
don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. I mean,
it could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of other
people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds,
OK?”
Trump
continued to reject any conclusion even after his election: By January 2017,
and two weeks before the inauguration and after weeks of his taking aim at U.S.
intelligence, Trump sat down for a top-secret briefing at Trump Tower in NYC.
The DNI along with the heads of the
CIA, the FBI, and NSA all traveled to New York for the unenviable task of
informing Trump that they were about to publish a report that said Russian
leader Vladimir Putin personally ordered an influence campaign to try to help
him win.
Meeting
Consensus: “Trump had great difficulty, as did his team,
accepting the assertion that the Russians interfered” (DNI at the time, James Clapper, said in an interview with NPR).
Related
story July 16, 2018
(during Trump-Putin Helsinki summit) NY
Times report.
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