There’s Always A Tweet: Intelligence Briefings Edition

Mediaite reports:

Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt justified President Donald Trump’s inaction with intelligence on Russia because “all president’s don’t read all of their briefings.”

“This is not anything new,” Earhardt said on the matter. “The point here is: if it is not verified by our 16 intelligence agencies, that’s their job, that’s what they do it doesn’t get to the president’s desk.”

“If he is briefed on it, then he can act on it. So that’s the danger here. If it’s not true and then the president acts, then that causes a lot of trouble. We want to be safe here.”

There’s always a tweet.

Fact–Obama does not read his intelligence briefings nor does he get briefed in person by the CIA or DOD. Too busy I guess!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2014

this tweet aged like a bottle of Thunderbird in a skid row flophouse

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 30, 2020