General Discussion

blitzen

(4,572 posts) Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:27 PM Mar 2017

Hayden: Trump forgot that he was President

"What a dummy," as my son said when I showed him this.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/hayden-trump-forgot-that-he-was-president

The former director of the CIA said Monday that President Trump could simply demand proof that his phones had been tapped from the intelligence community, and that perhaps Trump “just for a moment forgot that he was President,” in making the claim without proof.

Michael Hayden told “Fox and Friends” that “my instinct is no,” President Obama did not order that Trump be wiretapped. The White House has demanded that Congress investigate Trump's claim.

“It looks as if the President just for a moment forgot that he was President,” Hayden continued. “Why didn’t he simply use the powers of the presidency to ask the acting director of national intelligence, the head of the FBI, to confirm or deny the story he apparently read from Breitbart the evening before?”

5 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Hayden: Trump forgot that he was President (Original Post) blitzen Mar 2017 OP

Because quietly asking would not serve his purpose. Solly Mack Mar 2017 #1

To deflect the Sessions Russia story off the front page TeamPooka Mar 2017 #4

Exactly! lisa58 Mar 2017 #5

If he asked, he still might get the truth from the DNI. Why? Eyeball_Kid Mar 2017 #2

Because Trump has no interest in anything that was said lunatica Mar 2017 #3

Solly Mack

(90,791 posts)

1. Because quietly asking would not serve his purpose.

Reply to blitzen (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:30 PM

Mar 2017

Have to get his minions all riled up. Have to get those ratings up.And to deflect.

TeamPooka

(24,264 posts)

4. To deflect the Sessions Russia story off the front page

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:41 PM

Mar 2017

lisa58

(5,755 posts)

5. Exactly!

Reply to Solly Mack (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:43 PM

Mar 2017

Eyeball_Kid

(7,434 posts)

2. If he asked, he still might get the truth from the DNI. Why?

Reply to blitzen (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:34 PM

Mar 2017

Because if a warrant were issued and the reason for the warrant for the purposes of counterintelligence, with Trumpy and/or his inner circle as participants/conspirators, then Trumpy wouldn't hear the truth, because counterintelligence units do NOT reveal their methods and sources to subjects of their investigations--which IS the White House staff.

Michael Hayden knows this, but is skirting the part of the story that implicates Trumpy as a Russian agent.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

3. Because Trump has no interest in anything that was said

Reply to blitzen (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 03:38 PM

Mar 2017

Reply to this discussion