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Trump Ousted Spy Chief After Election Briefing
February 20, 2020 at 3:32 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/20/trump-soured-on-spy-chief-after-election-briefing/
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President Trump erupted at his acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, in the Oval Office last week over what he perceived as disloyalty by Maguires staff, ruining his chances of becoming the permanent intelligence chief, the Washington Post reports.
Maguire had been considered a leading candidate to be nominated for the DNI post, White House aides had said. But Trumps opinion shifted last week, after he heard from a GOP ally that the intelligence official in charge of election security, who works for Maguire, gave a classified briefing last Thursday to the House Intelligence Committee on 2020 election security.
Its unclear what the official, Shelby Pierson, specifically said at the briefing that angered Trump, But the president erroneously believed that she had given information exclusively to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the committee chairman, and it would be helpful to Democrats if released publicly.
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GusBob
(7,286 posts)Like the Russians interfering in 2020
applegrove
(118,778 posts)RockRaven
(15,000 posts)He is beyond parody.
marble falls
(57,223 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,416 posts)Timmygoat
(779 posts)He informed them that the Russians were already working to re-elect Trump.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That sounds less than optimal.