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From The Independent
Donald Trump dismissed a North Korean ballistic missile test as a hoax because Vladimir Putin had told him that Pyongyang did not have the capacity to launch such weapons, former FBI chief Andrew McCabe has claimed.
The fresh allegation of the president’s willingness to be influenced by Russia is detailed in Mr McCabe’s new book, which chronicles his time working with the Trump administration.
The book details an Oval Office briefing held in July 2017, during which Mr Trump reportedly refused to believe a US intelligence report that said North Korea had tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Mr McCabe said the president shrugged off the warning from security advisers, claiming the secretive communist state did not possess the technology to conduct such a rocket launch.
As justification for his statement, it is then claimed Mr Trump said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.
COMMENT:-
Who knows? Other than Mr. McCabe the other people involved either are still governed by confidentially agreements or non-disclosure agreements and/or haven't published their own books yet.
I suppose that we'll just have to await the publication of "Why I Was The Greatest President That The United States of America Will Ever Have, But Am Too Modest To Say So." - won't we?
Trump thought North Korea did not have ballistic missile capabilities ‘because Putin told him so’
Donald Trump dismissed a North Korean ballistic missile test as a hoax because Vladimir Putin had told him that Pyongyang did not have the capacity to launch such weapons, former FBI chief Andrew McCabe has claimed.
The fresh allegation of the president’s willingness to be influenced by Russia is detailed in Mr McCabe’s new book, which chronicles his time working with the Trump administration.
The book details an Oval Office briefing held in July 2017, during which Mr Trump reportedly refused to believe a US intelligence report that said North Korea had tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Mr McCabe said the president shrugged off the warning from security advisers, claiming the secretive communist state did not possess the technology to conduct such a rocket launch.
As justification for his statement, it is then claimed Mr Trump said he knew this because Vladimir Putin had told him so.
COMMENT:-
Who knows? Other than Mr. McCabe the other people involved either are still governed by confidentially agreements or non-disclosure agreements and/or haven't published their own books yet.
I suppose that we'll just have to await the publication of "Why I Was The Greatest President That The United States of America Will Ever Have, But Am Too Modest To Say So." - won't we?