The anonymous leakers also said that Trump was trying to cover it up.
As usual the NYT and WaPo stories didn't name their sources and we all no that in the past many stories based on anonymous sources "in the know" have turned out to be false.
Allegedly Trump was upset about this being reported. Within hours we see that his concern was right.
Despite the fact that the IC did not say that Trump or anyone who works with him were involved Democrats like Nancy Pelosi were howling that this was horrible; Laurence Tribe even called it treason.
This truly looks like TREASON in all but the narrowest possible sense. If confirmed, it’s utterly devastating. It points to an enemy of the nation sitting in the White House. This cannot stand if we are to survive as a sovereign constitutional republic. https://t.co/oWexilPnao— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 20, 2020
But this particular scandal was debunked much quicker than usual.
First it came out that even leftist #FakeNews media folks were saying that the IC had no actual intelligence, like NSA intercepts, to support their conclusion; if in fact that was their conclusion.
A national security official I know and trust pushes back on the way the briefing/ODNI story is being told, and others with firsthand knowledge agree with his assessment.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
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2/ "What's been articulated in the news is that the intelligence community has concluded that the Russians are trying to help Trump again. But the intelligence doesn't say that,” the official says...— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
3/ “The problem is Shelby" -- Pierson, the elections threats executive in the intelligence community -- "said they developed a preference for Trump. A more reasonable interpretation of the intelligence is not that they have a preference, it's a step short of that....— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
4/ “It's more that they understand the president is someone they can work with, he's a dealmaker. But not that they prefer him over Sanders or Buttigieg or anyone else. So it may have been mischaracterized by Shelby" at the House Intel briefing last week...— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
5/ "And by the way,” the official says, “both Democrats and Republicans were challenging this at the briefing."— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
Then there’s the matter of the tense meeting between President Trump and erstwhile Acting Director of National Intelligence Admiral Maguire...
6/ “The President was upset that he had to hear about an intelligence conclusion from a Member of the House Republicans rather than from the intelligence community. So he was out of joint with Maguire on that process."— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
When Jake Tapper, who hates Trump with a passion, is saying that it's all bogus we can be pretty sure that it's all bogus.
The most troubling part, that Trump allegedly wanted to quash this report, turns out to be that Trump was upset that the IC didn't tell him first.
Which is a valid concern since one would think that the President should be the first one to be told about possible election interference. But clearly a politically biased IC would like to keep Trump in the dark. Not because they think he's colluding with Russia--Mueller showed that that dog don't hunt--but because telling Democrats first lets them attack Trump for not having done anything even though he had no time to do anything since the IC was keeping him in the dark.
What's bizarre, and shows Tapper's bias, is his next tweet:
7/ None of this disputes that Trump desires to replace those who have Intel expertise with partisan loyalists, or dismisses the larger issues and concerns about Russia and how the president seeks help from abroad.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2020
Just that there seems to be more to this particular story.
After telling us there is no basis for the original charge that Putin favors Trump, which given Bernie's love affair with Russia is absurd, and that the whole story was a bit of #FakeNews orchestrated by the Deep State in the IC Tapper goes on to act as though it's odd that Trump wants to fire the people in the IC who view him, not Russia or China, as the greatest threat to America and who will tell any lie to subvert the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Then we discover just how hypocritical the Democrats are.
The Washington Post wrote that Bernie Sanders was told by government officials that Russia is attempting to help his campaign. Oddly the voices that were castigating Trump seem to be a lot more reserved when Putin's helping Bernie.
Apparently if Putin allegedly helps Trump it's Trump's fault but if Putin helps Bernie it's Putin's fault. Just like the how Democrats blame Trump for the nuts who support him, even though Trump condemns their actions, while saying that the Bernie supporter who nearly murdered Republicans Steve Scalise in no way reflects on Bernie.
The fact that the WaPo and the NYT ran with this story which was debunked in around 24 hours shows that you can't trust anything they print.
That even after showing that Trump was correct that the IC is full of people out to get Trump Jake Tapper can say that it's odd that Trump is trying to clean the political partisans out of the IC shows how biased even relatively honest #FakeNews media reporters are.
At this rate within a fake scandal or two Trump will be refuting the scandals before the Democrats announce them.
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