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jmowreader

(52,591 posts)
23. In a way that's good
Sat May 10, 2025, 06:05 PM
May 2025

Right now I wouldn't trust the bastard with intelligence you got by reading the newspaper.

I have said in the past that if I was the desk analyst in charge of preparing the President's Daily Brief I'd use nothing but open-source information in it but I've changed my mind: just giving him open-source would show him the methods used to pick out the stories we used for the PDB. No, what they need to do with Trump is just read him every story in the New York Times.

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No amount of meetings will give him intelligence. twodogsbarking May 2025 #1
Reality conflicts with his world view and his desires, therefore reality and facts get eliminated. Lonestarblue May 2025 #2
Yes. Sadly, he's getting all the "intelligence" he thinks he needs from people like Laura Loomer. tanyev May 2025 #4
He values Putin's opinion more than our own intelligence community. groundloop May 2025 #3
Hey cut him some slack Woodwizard May 2025 #5
He's got the place on auto-pilot Historic NY May 2025 #6
Trump is only interested in grifting, showing off, and destroying the US economy and govt. Irish_Dem May 2025 #7
He gets all he needs from DENVERPOPS May 2025 #8
Must be a nice vacation for the cartoonists who make the story boards to show him. Vinca May 2025 #9
Derelict... Hope22 May 2025 #10
Derelict Donald Pinback May 2025 #14
it is astonishing that any President would distrust the great work of our FBI and CIA agents cadoman May 2025 #11
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe May 2025 #12
He doesn't have anywhere near the intelligence to understand them, Gary 50 May 2025 #13
That's the truth FakeNoose May 2025 #17
When you already know everything, what's the point? Pinback May 2025 #15
How many golf weekends has he skipped? JoseBalow May 2025 #16
Maybe Trump is competing with Patel to see who can work less?? riversedge May 2025 #18
Recommended. H2O Man May 2025 #19
His intelligence is indeed very brief Orrex May 2025 #20
Trump knows what's important. Evidently, everything else is more important. And besides,..... SupportSanity May 2025 #21
Isn't that an acceptable error in judgment? LittleGirl May 2025 #22
In a way that's good jmowreader May 2025 #23
Surprised he attended that many. Must have been exhausted. JHC. Evolve Dammit May 2025 #24
Who is surprised by this? LetMyPeopleVote May 2025 #25
Just as well. marble falls May 2025 #26
Miller, Kegsbreath and his wife Traildogbob May 2025 #27
Dereliction of duty FirstLight May 2025 #28
MIHOP national catastrophe incoming! LudwigPastorius May 2025 #29
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