National Intelligence Director Shocked To Hear Trump Just Invited Vladimir Putin To White House [VIDEO]

The New York Times reports:

President Trump plans to invite President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to Washington for another meeting in the fall, officials said Thursday, even as Mr. Trump’s top advisers groped for details of what the two leaders discussed in their last meeting in Helsinki, Finland.

Mr. Trump’s director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, acknowledged frustration at being kept in the dark about the meeting, which included only the leaders and their respective interpreters. “If he had asked me how that ought to be conducted,” Mr. Coats said at a security conference in Aspen, Colo., “I would have suggested a different way. It is what it is.”

DNI Dan Coats did not know that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak would visit the Oval Office. #AspenSecurity pic.twitter.com/rWZWXlDVIA

— Aspen Security Forum (@AspenSecurity) July 19, 2018

How will Dan Coats be preparing for Vladimir Putin’s Washington visit? “We will be looking at what the potential intelligence risks will possibly be.”

— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) July 19, 2018

Watch Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats as he learns that Trump invited Putin to Washington. pic.twitter.com/9SdYU8RduQ

— Red T Raccoon (@RedTRaccoon) July 19, 2018