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Cipher Brief Network On Trump's Intelligence Community Comments

Posted: August 19th, 2016

On Wednesday, Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, received his first classified intelligence briefing at an FBI field office in New York City. The briefing, which was given by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), comes on the heels of controversial remarks made by Trump in an interview with Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt in Milwaukee on Tuesday night. In response to a question about whether he trusts U.S. “intelligence,” Trump stated:

“Not so much from the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what’s happened over the last 10 years. Look what’s happened over the years. It’s been catastrophic. And, in fact, I won’t use some of the people that are sort of your standards, you know, just use them, use them, use them, very easy to use them, but I won’t use them because they’ve made such bad decisions.”

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