, a former CIA station chief in Moscow who also worked in the Middle East, says it's important to share intelligence as widely and as quickly as possible.
"My concern as an intelligence officer would be, I don't want the president or his national security adviser to be blindsided when [British] Prime Minister Boris Johnson says, 'Hey, about that reporting we received that the Russians have a bounty out for our people in Afghanistan,'" Hoffman added. These intelligence streams flow into the various agencies around the clock, and overnight, while Washington sleeps, a team puts together the formal briefing book that's ready by daybreak.Sept. 11 Revealed The Importance And Limits Of The President's Daily Briefing
Trump has been criticized for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and now the Russia bounty story. In both cases, the White House has tried to shift at least some of the blame onto the briefings.
AngelMcCann11 The bigger question is now that he knows it, whT will he do? His silence is deafening
We knew this
He knows now!!
Still can do something about it. Why hasn’t he done his job, again.
Plausible deniability. If you didn’t know about it..? Can we stop tweeting about Mr. Trump so he will go away like he thinks the virus will, by not testing?
I love it when Trump's only defense for treason is incompetence. realdonaldtrump 'I'm not a traitor, I'm just incompetent' FakePresident
Next time tweet it to him
And you know this how?
TrumpLies
ENOUGH! Trump has been playing dumb for the past two weeks on this. He definitely knows that this is a problem, and now he is finding a way to justify doing nothing to punish Russia, because HE CAN'T. He is screwed if he tries anything negative to Russia.
Just show whether or not it was delivered orally or in print. If print only, so be it.
Why does the U.S. still have troops in Afghanistan? 🤔 Why aren't Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden calling for us to pull our troops out of Afghanistan? 🤔
But he knows about it now, so what's he doing about it?
Seriously STOP, Trump is not going to bad mouth his bookie Putin.
The GOP now stands for Government Of PUTIN
gut this fish Send a message to repressive and elitists leaders by charging Trump with CrimesAgainstHumanity
🤔sadly DJT didn’t feel need to place great importance on daily briefs ... therefore guilty of neglecting job , although he swore to protect us all . Sad 😢 bigly
Wait, you mean he lied? I’m shocked. 🙄
Nothing surprising Putin has him in a choke hold , John Bolton was scared to leave Trump alone with Putin for a minute, Bolton’s book clearly states how national security has been seriously compromised by this president, Putin was the KGB head , ruthless professional calculating
He’s either a lier or asleep at the wheel !
Old news. Catch up you rag. chuckschumer lied and leaked intel from 2014.
Could he be lying, perhaps?
Lyin POS. So much for the buck stops here
Didn’t the US do the same thing or something similar when the Russians were there? Afghanistan
But everyone knows he does not read. So did anyone explain it out loud? Using short words?
This is still unverified Russia Hoax do over.
Deny, deny, deny...
The dog ate me homewoorK
did you and other media get your knickers in a knot over this story? and if not why not?
Why would Americans expect him to read something with that name? He already knows more than anyone else. Just ask him.
You mean... President Donald Trump is not telling the truth?
Let it go....nothing burger. Pa. Adam Schifty's team heard the unconfirmed reports to... Where is that story?
Baseless and unsubstantiated fake news. Shame on you, .
Even if no one told him then, he now knows. Why hasn't he done anything about it?
Show us what the briefing looks like open. If it’s not a child’s picture book, the joke’s on the Intel community.
Media sources that highlight trump's assertion that he was not told about the intelligence report is obfuscation. It was given to him in the PDB. If he won't read it and has his advisers cowed enough to select intel to verbalize that won't excite him, God save us all. It's on him
He can't be away from twitter or patting himself on the back long enough to actually do his job. SMH....
🤦🏻♂️
Our taxes pay for this shit.
DerangedDonald realDonaldTrump caught in yet another TrumpLie this time with real consequences for our military. DumpTrump2020 CadetBoneSpurs
Are you people IDIOTS Gina Haspel has already stated that the Press was wrong and by passing off inaccurate information is DAMAGING to United States !
Polls indicate Trump will lose in a near landslide and the GOP will lose massive House seats and lose the Senate. The MSM Main Stream Media will win and that includes . I would be OK with that IF I THOUGHT the media would once again, finally, do their job. They won’t .
NPR must returns as national public radio not as false ideas propaganga machine, that supported only third of Americans.
Old news, the Taliban has said that Russian has been paying money since 2014. How come Obama didn't know?
...Right. Either Trump doesnt give af. Or, our self-described Stable Genius President - does NOT read or pay attention to - intelligence briefings. Either way, Great job!
Either one is damning. He knew & ignored it = treason. He failed to perform his job because of his incompetence and/or contempt for his job = 25th amendment. TrumpKnewAndDidNothing TrumpIsANationalSecurityThreat TraitorTrump
Sure, but he’s an idiot who just doesn’t care, especially about Russia.
The New York Times Made up a story. realDonaldTrump kept it moving. No need to respond to fraud and lies
If it’s true that no one told him, then you’d have to wonder why? Also if he decided to not read it in the daily briefing, that means he was willing to risk not knowing the risks to America. Whose fault is that?
Why would the President trust any intelligence from the same Deep State that manufactured fake intelligence in order to keep him out of office?
Let’s imagine it to be true that the President didn’t know about this back then. He definitely knew as of 2 weeks ago. What has he done about this since then?
.realdonaldtrump knew! Mike_Pence knew! SenateGOP knew and HouseGOP knew! USA Service Members were killed for a bounty paid for by Russia! GOP remained silent! 121 Days until OperationOrangeCrush🍊 USAirforce, USArmy, USCG, USMC, USNavy VoteBlue2020🗳️
GOP values =debunked. Gay marriage didn’t end the world (or str8 sanctity); Trickle-down theory fueled wealth inequality; Jesus is not white; Racism is bad; They don’t care abt actual constitution or patriotism; Their leader is TraitorTrump GOP=Dying RidiculousRepublicans
Obviously they need to start paying Sean hannity to read him his PDBs. Or get someone to act the briefings out with sock puppets. You can’t expect this barely literate clown to actually read anything important.
So, Trump lied.
Trump lying again!!
fake news
Trump now knows about the RussianBounty, right? He has not said anything. Can someone tell him again?
He’s a liar. He lies. Of course he knows! But he doesn’t work for us! He works for Putin.
What does he define as his responsibility? Nothing.
Trump needs to start doing his job and start reading the intelligence briefs. It’s disturbing that he doesn’t read and his people pretty much have to describe things with pictures. FUBAR
So was there no follow-up after the PDB? Seems like someone would have asked “so what do you want to do about this intel?”
Your image reads 'President Bush' on the cover. Reporting like this reminds me of CBS News showing Italian hospital rooms as hospital rooms in NYC. CBS did this 3 times. Find a better (current) image.
Sooooo is BountyGate over now Why don't the Dems start investigations? Why doesn't every Democrat talk about it constantly. The Democrats are not very good at this BountyGate
He believes in don’t ask don’t tell
Trumps Briefing info
It's always someone else's fault with him, no personal responsibility of any kind. 🙄
I don't know that much not represented in colorful pictures or any content with polysyllabic words reaches this President.
He knows now, but instead of addressing it & reassuring the public a full investigation has been underway, he’s more focused on his own self-interests. “I take no responsibility.” really is his catch phrase.
So once again, TrumpLies, TrumpLiesPeopleDie
Listen, NO ONE with intelligence and a mind of their own believes Benedict did not know his buddy had put a bounty on our boys' head!! So just stop with the 'President Trump says' stories. Because 1st of all he is not our real president, and secondly... he is a LIAR.
What else aren’t they telling him?
Rest my cast.
I wonder what else President Magoo has missed..
We all know it was the cheneys wanting to keep troops in afganistan.....stop lying already. The swamp runs DEEP.
Oh haha I think I know the problem. That picture says 'President Bush' but Bush isn't president anymore. Glad I could help :)
They only way to get Trump to read the PDB is to reduce it to comic book fashion with illustrations, and then set in his bathroom reading table next to the golden toilet.
trump has to be lying.
Liberals rhetoric by activists journalists destined to destroy America
And he's still doing nothing
Defund NPR
What would YOU. Put in the president’s briefs...?
Still on this huh? Even tho it’s been debunked....OK. Funny I never saw your outrage when Obama made deals and gave billions to Iran even tho there was proof they were paying a bounty on US Soldiers. Fake outrage by partisan hacks.
We all know he knew.
VOTE!
realDonaldTrump here it is- hiding underneath all your McDonald wrappers and Diet Coke cans...
IT IS LITERALLY HIS JOB - BULLSHIT
should have but you have no proof it did... if he read every unconfirmed Intel report he wouldn't have time for anything else
They don’t fucking read come on now
DefundNPR
It is one thing to present a detailed intel report to Trump. It is another for Trump to read or comprehend the report and act on it.
Had the PDB for Russian bounties yet been translated into cartoon format so Trump could absorb the info?
He has the excuses of a five year old.
Oh yes that annoying daily briefing don't they know he's busy dammit fox and friends is on he's waiting for them to ask them to flick the lights again....now that was a big day
if we research this a little farther he wasn't actually told about it because there was no credible proof
Schiff had the same info. Wonder why he didnt think its was bad? Also curious as to why you dont mention that?
Lazy
Trump got confused when he saw the title' President's Daily Briefing' said he wore boxers and wasn't keen on seeing briefs at all.
This needs to be widely disseminated.
Isn’t that kind of the point of being president.
And yet, he is doing nothing about. He needs Putin’s support in November.
‘No one told me’ means it required reading so he skipped it.
Very little reaches Trump, unless it’s on Fox News.
The fact that the PDB is characterized as Top secret from day one is very offensive to me as a citizen. Information should be declared top secret by a proper process and not jerks in the White House or the FBI or the CIA, they lack independence (on this Independence Day).
Ooops! DefundNPR EnemyOfThePeople
Of course it was! But because it didn’t involve making money or dividing the country , he didn’t care ‼️🤡‼️🤡
realDonaldTrump
If I didn’t do my assigned reading in a school and then failed the test, I wouldn’t get out of it because I hadn’t done the reading.
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