CIA Cheering Trump Was Staged
If you saw President Trump’s speech at CIA headquarters on Saturday, you may have questioned or been surprised that the attendees were applauding, cheering, and laughing at some of the comments and claims he was making. It may have seemed odd that an organization that should be non-partisan and is married to facts with more intimacy than nearly anyone on the planet would react to him as if he were headlining in Vegas. If you thought any of this was a bit strange, not only were you probably right, you also weren’t alone.
“There is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump,” the president said, during an elaborate song and dance to dissolve a very real and public feud he had over Russian hacking. At one point Trump had referred to members of the intelligence community as “Nazis” for circulating information that alleged Russian spies had collected blackmail material on him, including a video of him with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel.
Trump then called out the “dishonest media,” as he had during the campaign, and was seemingly met with cheers and laughter from the crowd.
Trump stood before what was supposedly a room of agents, with his back to the famous Memorial Wall honoring those who have died serving their country. “You’re going to get so much backing from me, you’re going to say, ‘Please, Mr. President, no more backing,’” he said, getting some odd claps and chuckles.
A former top CIA official dismissed the attendee’s apparent enthusiasm for Trump saying, “They are good, polite people. He’s the president, and he is kissing their ass, why wouldn’t they clap?” ...