Trump refuses to believe the CIA. Here we go again.

The real tragedy right now is that Donald Trump is refusing to believe the CIA. We have been here before. "W" didn't believe the CIA. Dick Cheney stated the White House would not get to a PDB about bin Laden for six months and within months there was this.

Add to that Donald Trump doesn't spend time with his PDB and what have we got? We have the country extremely vulnerable all over again. 

Mr. Trump's reaction to this is worrisome. He is not campaigning anymore and his dismissal and berating of the facts is dangerous. The first day after his election there were demonstrations right outside his front door. His response was to state the demonstrators were professionals and defamed them. He is not able to divide his personal ego from the issues that surround him. That is a problem.

The USA can't have a person in the White House that takes every issue personally. That is how he got elected. He took everything that opposed him in the campaign personally and turned it into a character assassination of his opponent. 

Mr. Trump is self-serving. That is obvious. He is not fit to be president and every event that comes up keeps telling us so. I don't want a president that believes he is untouchable by powers that want to hurt the USA, including Russia and China. I want NATO to be esteemed and viewed as vital to our national interest.

December 9, 2016
By Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller

The CIA (click here) has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.

Intelligence agencies have identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emailsfrom the Democratic National Committee and others, including Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, according to U.S. officials. Those officials described the individuals as actors known to the intelligence community and part of a wider Russian operation to boost Trump and hurt Clinton’s chances.

“It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” said a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators. “That’s the consensus view.”...