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I love this reaction, because Trump, of all people, was getting some of the least useful briefings of any modern US president, due to his inability to pay atten

• 7speter 4y ago
  Or someone at the briefings said there was a possibility that the origin of the virus was a lab leak and that was the only thing he actually heard and just said that the origin of the virus was a lab leak.
• philippejara 4y ago
  No, it isn't entirely possible(any more than anything else is technically possible). In the rolling stone article: > "Clapper agreed with Gistaro, telling Helgerson, “Trump doesn’t read much; he likes bullets.” Instead, during the Trump administration, the briefer would summarize aloud key points since the last briefing and provide three documents (none more than a page) about new developments abroad. This was all part of an effort to make the PDB “shorter and tighter, with declarative sentences and no feature-length pieces.” > “Trump had his own way of receiving intelligence information—and a uniquely rough way of dealing publicly with the IC,” Helgerson wrote, “but it was a system in which he digested the key points offered by the briefers, asked questions, engaged in discussion, made his own priority interests known, and used the information as a basis for discussions with his policy advisers.”" > "These and other difficulties agencies encountered under Trump led Helgerson to conclude that, “The system worked, but it struggled.”" He clearly had access to more information than any civilian, and was engaging with it.
• corbulo 4y ago
  I'm always fascinated by the dichotomy of the evil hitler hyper-competent sub 100IQ billionaire who became president illustrated in every one of these types of comments. You could literally just read his executive orders to figure out what you said is false.
  • Zetice 4y ago
    Having read a number of Trump administration Executive Orders and not understanding what you mean, could you elaborate?