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skip fox

(19,359 posts) Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:04 AM Jan 2017

What will Trump say? "Because I told the truth about the Intel community, this is their revenge."

Has Trump been setting up a narrative for weeks by discrediting the intelligence community so that he could claim their revelations about him are the result of revenge?

Let's wait and see.

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What will Trump say? "Because I told the truth about the Intel community, this is their revenge." (Original Post) skip fox Jan 2017 OP

Yes and no. no_hypocrisy Jan 2017 #1

I don't think this is the scenerio. skip fox Jan 2017 #2

And Hence His "Fake News" Defense Too...nt global1 Jan 2017 #3

Yes. skip fox Jan 2017 #4

no_hypocrisy

(46,114 posts)

1. Yes and no.

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:08 AM

Jan 2017

It is the revenge of the Intelligence Community, yes.

And no, it's because Trump came out and said he was going to fire a lot of career people.

They've kept files and dossiers on Trump since the early Eighties and they are updated regularly.

If Trump had cooperated with them, we wouldn't be talking about prostitutes, Russia, and golden showers.

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

2. I don't think this is the scenerio.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:29 AM

Jan 2017

By all accounts this material has been around for awhile.

Therefore Trump knew it as gong to come out sooner or later.

So he dissed C.I.A., N.S.A, et al. so that when the material did come out, as it did yesterday, he could claim it's all revenge and that there's nothing to it.

(It will be interesting to see how he'll handle it at the press conference today.)

global1

(25,249 posts)

3. And Hence His "Fake News" Defense Too...nt

Reply to skip fox (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:40 AM

Jan 2017

skip fox

(19,359 posts)

4. Yes.

Reply to global1 (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 11, 2017, 08:53 AM

Jan 2017

He thinks he has it covered.

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