After casting doubt on the intelligence community, President Donald Trump will meet with CIA officials during his first full day as President of the United States.
Trump’s spokesman Sean Spicer tweeted out Saturday that Trump will lead the thank you event.
.@POTUS to visit @CIA this afternoon. Event is over capacity at 300+ Excited to thank the men and women of the intelligence community
— Sean Spicer (@PressSec) January 21, 2017
The event comes as Trump has criticized the intelligence community throughout his transition. A few weeks ago, Trump compared the intel community to Nazis and Trump also attacked outgoing CIA Director John Brennan as he stepped down.
Trump has yet to get his nominee to lead the CIA Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) confirmed. A tussle over confirmations kept Pompeo from being confirmed Friday. After debate. the Senate is expected to pick up his confirmation on Monday.
A post-election campaign rally for the CIA?
WIth 300 in attendance I doubt they’ll have a chance to discuss the status of the current investigation into Trump’s Russia connections.
Please, please guys. No exploding cigars … think hairspray.
Over-capacity crowd expected - they all want to see the first extraordinary rendition of a U.S. President.
Is this the “thanks, everyone you’re doing a great job” and “there’s no need to be wasting all of your precious time and resources on this Russia investigation when there’s nothing there” meeting?