{"id":183074,"date":"2019-02-01T07:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T07:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183074"},"modified":"2019-02-04T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T07:59:23","slug":"the-trump-administration-begins-to-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=183074","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration Begins to Fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Introduction \u2013 Jan 31, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_183077\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Christopher-Wray-Gina-Haspel-and-Dan-Coats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183077\" class=\"wp-image-183077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Christopher-Wray-Gina-Haspel-and-Dan-Coats-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"(L to R) Christopher Wray, Gina Haspel and Dan Coats. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Christopher-Wray-Gina-Haspel-and-Dan-Coats-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Christopher-Wray-Gina-Haspel-and-Dan-Coats-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Christopher-Wray-Gina-Haspel-and-Dan-Coats.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-183077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L to R) Christopher Wray, Gina Haspel and Dan Coats. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Two factions are emerging in the Trump administration. The first, headed by National Security advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are busily trying to further the Zionist agenda and foment conflict, particularly with Iran.<\/h5>\n<h5>However, their attempts to portray Iran as posing a threat to U.S. national security have just been flatly contradicted by a second, opposing faction, consisting of three of Trump\u2019s most senior intelligence chiefs.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/the-americas\/2019\/01\/29\/us-intel-chiefs-share-latest-assessment-of-north-korea-iran-nuclear-programs\/\">Testifying before Congress<\/a><\/span> on Tuesday, FBI directory Christopher Wray,\u00a0CIA director Gina Haspel, and\u00a0Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats all contradicted the president on a number of key security issues.<\/h5>\n<h5>North Korea was unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal, they said, despite the president and <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/07\/08\/us-secretary-of-state-says-he-s-confident-north-korea-will-disarm\">Mike Pompeo\u2019s assurance<\/a><\/span> that it would disarm.<\/h5>\n<h5>Although Trump had <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/u-s-troops-leave-syria-president-trump-declares-victory-over-n949806\">declared victory over ISIS<\/a><\/span>, the Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats flatly contradicted this when he said on Tuesday that the terror group <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/29\/politics\/world-wide-threat-assessment-syria-isis\/index.html\">remains a threat<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n<h5>While despite having abandoned the landmark nuclear deal with Iran because in Trump\u2019s words it was \u201cdisastrous\u201d, Dan Coats testified that Iran <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/01\/29\/dan-coats-north-korea-nuclear-weapons-1133969\">did not appear to be developing nuclear weapons<\/a><\/span>.<\/h5>\n<h5>Actually Trump\u2019s opposition to the Iran deal hasn&#8217;t focused on specific details. Instead he&#8217;s dismissed it in sweeping terms such his claim that \u201c<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2018\/may\/08\/iran-nuclear-deal-donald-trump-latest-live-updates\">At the heart of the deal was a giant fiction<\/a><\/span>.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Trump\u2019s reluctance to cite precise objections suggests that he&#8217;s been &#8220;instructed&#8221;\/&#8221;advised&#8221; to reject the deal out-of-hand, without getting bogged down with specifics.<\/h5>\n<h5>When he withdrew from the agreement President Trump claimed that Iran was not keeping its part of the agreement, although he provided no evidence to substantiate that. Since then he has offered no further evidence to corroborate it. Instead Trump has simply echoed John Bolton and Mike Pompeo in repeatedly condemning the deal and Iran.<\/h5>\n<h5>Likewise, Trump\u2019s scathing dismissal of the assessments from the heads of three major U.S. intelligence agencies suggests, to this writer, that he&#8217;s been &#8220;instructed&#8221;\/&#8221;advised&#8221; to dismiss them.<\/h5>\n<h5>All of which leads one to wonder who is really running U.S. foreign policy? U.S. intelligence officials who are kept informed by numerous agents and listening posts on what is happening around the world?<\/h5>\n<h5>Or are Zionist agents inside the Trump administration actually steering U.S. foreign policy and effectively controlling the U.S. president? For Israel\u2019s benefit rather than America\u2019s?<\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Trump delivers astonishing insult to his &#8216;naive&#8217; top intelligence chiefs as he tells them to &#8216;go back to SCHOOL&#8217; after they contradicted him on Iran, North Korea and ISIS<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Emily Goodin \u2013 Daily Mail Jan 31, 2019<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Trump suggested his chiefs were &#8216;extremely naive and passive&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>And he told them to &#8216;go back to school&#8217; as he defended his foreign policy stances<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>His intelligence chiefs painted a different picture when they testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said\u00a0North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is unlikely to give up his nuclear stockpiles<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Additionally Coats said Iran appeared not to be pursuing a nuclear weapon\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>And\u00a0CIA director Gina Haspel warned ISIS was still dangerous\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Trump touted success after his summit last year with Kim; he&#8217;s charged Iran with being a nuclear threat; and he proclaimed ISIS &#8216;defeated&#8217; earlier this year<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_177403\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Trump-National-Security-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177403\" class=\"wp-image-177403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Trump-National-Security-team.jpg\" alt=\"Trump National Security team. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"322\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-177403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump National Security team. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Wednesday suggested his intelligence chiefs should &#8216;go back to school&#8217; and lectured their &#8216;naive&#8217; assessments on Iran after they\u00a0sharply contradicted his foreign policy claims, particularly on North Korea and ISIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The president&#8217;s response to his chiefs testimony before the Senate a day earlier was an unprecedented Twitter dressing down of America&#8217;s top intelligence officials, where he called them &#8216;extremely passive and naive,&#8217; said they were flat out\u00a0&#8216;wrong&#8217; on Iran, and suggested &#8216;Intelligence should go back to school!.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He railed against FBI directory Christopher Wray,\u00a0CIA director Gina Haspel, and\u00a0Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who painted a different picture of America&#8217;s relationship with its foreign partners when they testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Trump did not hold back in his fury and insults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but&#8230;.,&#8217; he tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He added: &#8216;&#8230;.a source of potential danger and conflict. They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge. There economy is now crashing, which is the only thing holding them back. Be careful of Iran. Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The president spent the morning in a defensive twitter storm about his foreign policy initiatives after\u00a0Coats argued North Korea has no intention of giving up its nuclear weapons &#8211; in contrast to the president&#8217;s claim of success after his summit with Kim Jong-Un &#8211; and CIA director Gina Haspel warned ISIS was still dangerous after Trump claimed they had been beaten.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Additionally Coats, in his testimony, had a different take on one of Trump&#8217;s key assertions on Iran &#8211; that it had\u00a0cheated on the spirit of the 2015 nuclear agreement. The president has argued Iran is still a nuclear threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Coats appeared to contradict that when he said Tehran was complying with the deal &#8211; even after Trump announced America&#8217;s withdrawal from it in May &#8211; and isn&#8217;t taking any steps toward a nuclear weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;We do not believe Iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear device,&#8217; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In The Senate, John Thune, the second most senior Republican as majority whip, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/01\/30\/politics\/republicans-john-thune-trump-senate-intelligence\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">told CNN<\/span>: <\/strong><\/a>&#8216;I prefer the President would stay off Twitter &#8211; particularly with regard to these important national security issues where you&#8217;ve got people who are experts and have the background and are professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;I think we need to trust their judgment.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Former CIA Director John Brennan, a frequent Trump critic who had his security clearance revoked by the president, retweeted Trump&#8217;s criticism and told the president: &#8216;All Americans, especially members of Congress, need to understand the danger you pose to our national security.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Your refusal to accept the unanimous assessment of U.S. Intelligence on Iran, No. Korea, ISIS, Russia, &amp; so much more shows the extent of your intellectual bankruptcy. All Americans, especially members of Congress, need to understand the danger you pose to our national security,&#8217; he wrote on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6648759\/Trump-defends-North-Korea-ISIS-foreign-policy-intel-chief-paint-different-picture.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump delivers astonishing insult to his &#8216;naive&#8217; top intelligence chiefs as he tells them to &#8216;go back to SCHOOL&#8217; after they contradicted him on Iran, North Korea and ISIS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183074"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183081,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183074\/revisions\/183081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}