Trump Says CIA Chief Might Have Leaked ‘Fake News’ Against Him

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President-elect Donald Trump says that the outgoing CIA Director John Brennan might be the person who has been leaking “fake news” about him.

On Sunday Trump blasted Brennan on twitter, suggesting that he may have leaked information about the existence of an unsubstantiated report that Russia allegedly had compromising information on him.

It followed Brennan’s earlier warning to Trump to watch his tongue after he slammed the incoming president for comparing the US intelligence community to Nazi Germany.

Trump quoted a headline that read, “CIA’s Brennan warns Trump, says he doesn’t ‘fully understand’ Russia threat,” and added his own comment.

In a second tweet Trump then asked “Was this the leaker of fake news?”

Press TV reports:

Last week, Trump accused US spy agencies of using Nazi tactics over leaking “fake news” and “phony stuff” about him to the media.

His remarks were made after a news website, BuzzFeed, published a 35-page document containing unverified information — from an alleged former British spy – that claimed that Trump was caught in a compromising position in Russia.

The document also claimed that Russia is in possession of “compromising” personal and financial information about Trump which it might use to blackmail the US president-elect.

Trump described the published material about him as “fake” and a “political witch hunt,” and said that the leaks from the US intelligence community to some media outlets were reminiscent of Nazi Germany.

Russia also rejected the BuzzFeed document as “completely fake,” adding that Moscow does not possess any blackmail file on Trump containing footage of him in a “compromising” position in a Moscow hotel.

But, Brennan said on Sunday that Trump needs to be disciplined about what he says publicly and censured him for comparing the actions of US intelligence agencies to those of Nazis.

According to American author and investigative journalist Dave Lindorff, the CIA worked against Trump because the spy agency is run by political appointees of the Obama administration.

“What’s basically at works here is that the CIA is run by political appointees of the Obama administration. It gets a little tricky because historically that’s not a position — the CIA director is not a position — that is changed at a whim by each president as they come in.  It’s supposed to be above politics, like the FBI director,” Lindorff told Press TV last month.

“But Trump has the ability to do that when he comes in, he can appoint the new CIA director. He has already named the suggested person. So he and the current CIA seem to be at logger heads,” the analyst explained.

5 Comments

  1. I don’t trust Trump, nor do I trust Brennan, but if you had to pick one that you felt more comfortable with, it would have to be Trump. How anyone would want to be in the same room with an evil, wicked, scumbag, soulless piece of crap (human) that is the head of an agency that is beyond imagination in evil is beyond me. The best thing that can happen for not only the nation, but the entire world, is for this guy and his agency to be sent packing to the graveyard.

  2. trump got ellected via freedom of speech and the first thing he does is a nazis action by re-re-re apointing rightwing clones back into office.DAN COATS the grayout the internet bill cofounder~SS^^^1%triadd.Trumps action of turn coating dan coats back into freespeech busting mode is the worst action I have ever witnessed in my 60 years.WTF got him ellected is what he is now blowing up and away and if there was ever a reason to leave the USA he has given it by cutting out the publics voice while spewing his free speech like garbage in the wind.Hillery&billery are more BS when the fluck is america going to wake up and smell japans nuke waste dump of a world?when the incoming missles from china dollar store hit them in the balls?

  3. dan coats gray out bill was stuck down in every fed court room as illegal and trump is stumpin for more WTF?.Maybe more marshall law?.It is impossible to ellect a real grass roots for real for real as you have to be in the pockets of the fed trade law busters.Trump didn`t pay himself in the was humped in by the GOP/MEGA MEGA union buster~SS

  4. Everyone may as well tape thier mouths shut yet again!.Native americans at least have a nation we have been sold off and out to china by puppet mobsters in the triangle food chain wiFi mofia shit throwers

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