“Most would agree the #1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe,” Moore says. “There is no more important meeting every day for the President than the one where he learns what the day’s potential threats are to the country.” It “simply boggles the mind,” he argues, that Trump wouldn’t take these meetings more seriously.
Then, he brought up George W. Bush and 9/11. “On August 6, 2001, he was on a month-long vacation at his ranch in Texas. That morning, the White House Counsel handed him his daily national security briefing. He glanced at it, set
If Trump, who once criticized President Barack Obama for skipping briefings, spent more time listening to them and less time “tweeting and defending Putin and appointing cabinet members to dismantle the government,” Moore says, the next attack might be prevented.
And, he concludes, Americans will not forget. “We will remember that while the plot to kill Americans was being hatched, your time was consumed by whom you saw as the real threat to America: Alec Baldwin in a wig.”
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