Dems seize on Trump feud with intelligence leaders

Democrats are seizing on President Trump’s latest feud with his intelligence chiefs to cast themselves as the party that is taking national security more seriously.

Trump called his intelligence leaders “passive and naive” on Friday after reading media reports about their testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats contradicted or at least differed with Trump on a number of issues, including the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Iran’s nuclear activities and Russia.

Trump later made up with the officials, who he said had told him they had been misquoted by the media.

The episode, which wasn’t the first time Trump has clashed with intelligence officials, buttressed Democratic arguments that they should be a check on Trump’s use of foreign policy now that they have the majority in the House.

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