CIA Book: Trump Most ‘Difficult’ Transition Since Nixon

A new chapter of a CIA-published book details former President Trump’s “difficult” transition after winning the 2016 presidential election, a tension the bureau largely attributed to Trump’s fraught relationship with the intelligence community that he derided publicly throughout his campaign and presidency.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1396215

Breaking News! Trump is a paranoid, lying, back-stabbing asshole!

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Huh. Kinda perfect chaos agent if you were recruiting on behalf of Vladimir Putin.

He’s a fucking traitor who has broadcast Consciousness of Guilt since before he ever took office.

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I was going with drooling imbecile, but tomato tomatoe

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“Trump also dwelled on the size of the crowd at his inauguration the previous day and said, incorrectly, that he had been on the cover of Time magazine more often than anyone else. Those in attendance were puzzled by these remarks and, according to one senior officer, returned to their offices shaking their heads.”

“Puzzled” my foot. Back in the real world, they returned to their offices thinking “That motherfucker is so far up his own ass that he can see light coming down the other way.”

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Seems logical: one was a paranoid, the other a narcissist.

The narcissist was also almost exclusively interested in running his crime family and avoiding prosecution rather than governing a country but why pick nits.

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I presume that the discomfort stems from TFG’s fear of being surrounded by intelligence, look at the group of morons he generally has around him. Sheesh.

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Its almost as if he had an extreme case of some well-understood personality disorder or something.

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Trump, anti-intelligence.

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By definition, megalomaniacs are “difficult” and those without intelligence do not respect it when presented to them.

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It has always been an absolute truth that Trump just does not have much in common with intelligence.

He just does not grasp concepts with even the slightest amount of complexity.

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Irate Bull Not Interested in Difference Between Bone China and Porcelain

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We could have kinda known all this. As if some jr high school boy had become POTUS. Total friggin’ absurdity. Who could ever had imagined?

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If you said that to Trump … you know he would think “Bone” was a verb …

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Just wait until @castor_troy is elected…

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And real shocker he had trouble getting along with anything related to intelligence

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He wouldn’t know a personality disorder if was looking at him in the mirror…

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Old news. Everyone knows that El Naranjo Lardo ALWAYS had a problem with intelligence.

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Trump in intelligence meeting -

“Do you guys have those glasses that can see through women’s clothes?”

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If you said that to Melanoma, she’d think it was a gross overstatement.

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