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Yahoo scrapes gutter again with HuffPost piece.
Sara Boboltz
Sara Boboltz·Reporter, HuffPost
Tue, October 20, 2020, 5:07 PM CDT
Intelligence officers in charge of briefing President Donald Trump on threats against the nation are reportedly “terrified” of speaking to him about Russia out of fear of how the president will react.
“No one’s going to brief anything on Russia to the president,” Marc Polymeropoulos told GQ correspondent Julia Ioffe. “They’re terrified of doing that. I know that from the briefers. Because he’ll explode and the whole thing will get derailed, because he has this weird affinity for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”
Asked why Putin is such a touchy subject, Polymeropoulos said that Trump “wants Putin to like him.”
“He doesn’t want to be embarrassed in front of Putin, that’s part of the dilemma,” he said.
“Just look at how he behaves with the Queen. That’s how he behaves with everyone who has any glamour and cachet,” he continued, adding, “Putin has everything he doesn’t have.”
The former official’s comments bolster a September report from Politico alleging that CIA Director Gina Haspel has been preventing intelligence about Russia from reaching the president’s ears to appease him.
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-russia-intelligence-explode-220746995.html