Buried In The WaPo Report: Advisers Cant Even Get Trump To Read One-Page Security Briefings

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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/05/15/buried-wapo-report-advisers-trump-read-one-page-security-briefings.html


Buried In The WaPo Report: Advisers Can’t Even Get Trump To Read One-Page Security Briefings

By Sean Colar
ossi on Mon, May 15th, 2017 at 9:00 pm

Trump isn't just leaking classified info, but he doesn't seem to know what is and isn't classified to begin with. Perhaps he should read his one-page briefings.


While all of the focus is appropriately on the fact that Donald Trump revealed highly-classified intelligence to the Russians in a private Oval Office meeting, buried deep in the same Washington Post report is another stunning revelation: The president’s advisers can’t even get Trump to read a dumbed-down version of foreign policy briefings.

That’s right – Trump demands that briefings be cut down to one page and presented in easy-to-read bullet points, and he still can’t be bothered to read them.

More via The Washington Post:

U.S. officials said that the National Security Council continues to prepare multi-page briefings for Trump to guide him through conversations with foreign leaders, but that he has insisted that the guidance be distilled to a single page of bullet points — and often ignores those.

“He seems to get in the room or on the phone and just goes with it, and that has big downsides,” the second former official said. “Does he understand what’s classified and what’s not? That’s what worries me.”

It’s not only a terrifying that the President of the United States is leaking classified intelligence – it’s even more frightening that Trump doesn’t appear to have a clue what is and what isn’t considered classified.

Perhaps if Donald Trump read the briefings his national security team works so hard to dumb down for him, he would have a better idea of when to keep his mouth shut, especially when he’s talking to a foreign adversary – but the American people shouldn’t expect him to change his ways anytime soon.

During the campaign, it was at times humorous just how shamelessly ignorant Trump was on all issues related to foreign policy – or, well, on all issues in general.

As president, it’s starting to have real and very damaging consequences.

[CreekDog]

1. Can they get Fox and Friends to read them?

[exboyfil]

4. They are too busy with Vince Foster

[underpants]

9. LOL

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. "starting to have"? I wish the media would get with the program!

How about over 100 days of real and damaging consequences!

[MineralMan]

3. We have a deliberately ignorant man in the White House.

He does not want to know actual information, and operates on faulty instincts. He is a dimwit and is proud of being such.

[LonePirate]

5. True but he's a racist and a Republican so half the country couldn't care less about his ignorance.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. Less than half. It is a critical distiction

With the continuing demographic changes already underway, if most of the whites who shifted from voting for Obama to Trump instead returned to voting Democratic (not most Trump voters, just that subset) Trumps politics would be toast on the national level.

[PJMcK]

8. His followers are just as ignorant (n/t)

[exboyfil]

6. Trump has become the Iraq War for the Republicans

Those who have jumped on the tiger can no longer get off without getting mauled.

Watch the politicians like Kasich that have been consistent in their rejection. They have to be the front runners in the 2020 Republican primary (whether it is Trump or Pence).

Ryan and McConnell are dead men walking. So is Pence.

Unfortunately to take full advantage of this the Democrats need at least one house of Congress in 2018, but I don't see that happening.

[Lee-Lee]

10. It seems nobody at high levels takes time to care about how serious these things are

And that mentality is coming from the top down.

[Gothmog]

11. Trump is an idiot

[BSdetect]

12. Reading is not his forte nor is comprehension. Retention is never taxed.

[Blaukraut]

13. Has he always disliked complicated reading material or is this recent?

If it's fairly recent, he really might have dementia.

[uponit7771]

14. He doesn't understand the words that are written on the page

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. I'm sure the agencies have access to talented illustrators.

Perhaps issuing it in comic-strip form would work. Have the heroine (who must be quite buxom, naturally), spell out the bullet points in a thought balloon while mud wrestling ISIS-Woman (also buxom, naturally).