Trump Insists That He Doesn’t Hate Intel Community And Love Assange

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Friday, Nov. 4, 2016, in Atkinson, N.H. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Following a Wall Street Journal report detailing Donald Trump’s disdain for the United States intelligence community, the President-elect published tweets insisting that he does not dislike the intelligence agencies and that he does not necessarily agree with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Trump on Wednesday morning noted that Assange has claimed that he did not receive leaked emails from Russia. The President-elect’s reference to Assange’s statements followed a Tuesday evening tweet in which Trump tried to cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion that Russian actors tried to meddle in the 2016 election by hacking political operatives.

The Wall Street Journal then reported Wednesday evening that Trump believes that U.S. intelligence agencies are biased against him and that Trump and his advisors are devising a plan to slim down two of the top intelligence agencies.

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  1. This is all too Kafkaesque for me!

  2. Oh Orange Shitgibbon… it’s not that you’re against intelligence, it’s just that you wouldn’t know it if it bit you on your sagging and veiny ass.

  3. The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states

    Duhhh…yeah, what Julie “The Leak” says…Yeah.

  4. A big fan? How are those daily briefings going then?

  5. The media lies to make it look like I am against “Intelligence” when in fact I am a big fan!

    He was devastated when “College Bowl” went off the air and “Jeopardy” is a piss-poor substitute.

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