Former Obama WH Official: Trump Relying on Fox News For Intel is ‘Scary’
“The scary thing is that [Trump]’s increasingly relying on sources like Fox News to get his intelligence, rather than the professionals in his own government,” says Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to Joe Biden https://t.co/wJSgobnXF1 pic.twitter.com/jg1jymmoJ1
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) July 3, 2018
Jacob Sullivan, a national security expert who served in Barack Obama’s White House, described President Donald Trump’s reliance on Fox News for intelligence as a “scary thing” that puts Americans “at risk.”
“The scary thing is that [Trump]’s increasingly relying on sources like Fox News to get his intelligence, rather than the professionals in his own government.” Sullivan said while appearing on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. “I think that puts us all at risk.
Sullivan, who specifically served as a national security adviser to Joe Biden in the Obama administration and helped advise Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, broke down how the misinformation got to Trump:
“The claim in the Fox News story is completely false — that somehow granting citizenship to Iranians was part of the nuclear negotiations. That is absolutely, flatly not rue. What’s interesting about this, is that what happened is a hardline crank in Iran just randomly made this comment, Fox News writes a story on it, and then Trump tweets it. He had every opportunity to call people in his own Department of Homeland Security and State Department to ask whether or not this is true and they would’ve told him it wasn’t.”
The tweet Sullivan blasted included Trump asking “how big (and bad)” it was that the Obama administration granted citizenship to Iranians amid nuclear arrangement discussions.
Just out that the Obama Administration granted citizenship, during the terrible Iran Deal negotiation, to 2,500 Iranians – including to government officials. How big (and bad) is that?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2018
A CNN report on the matter described the Fox News story as “dubious,” while former National Security Council senior director Jeff Prescott called the president’s allegations “absurd and entirely false.”
Watch above, via CNN.
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