BREAKING: Intelligence Officials BLAST Trump For Talking About Classified Briefings

At last night’s Commander-In-Chief Forum, Donald Trump alleged that he could tell the officials who gave him two classified briefings on national security were disappointed with the decisions choices President Obama had made as a result of intelligence they had provided him. Specifically, Trump told host Matt Lauer:

“I was very, very surprised. In almost every instance, and I could tell, I have pretty good with the body language [sic], I could tell, they were not happy. Our leaders did not follow what they were recommending.”

As with everything that comes out of Trump’s bloated piehole, you have to take what he says with a 200 gallon drum of industrial grade salt. The man is a pathological liar and lies as often as he breathes.

But today, according to the Washington Post, members of the intelligence community are pushing back at the Orange Menace, saying he had absolutely no right to disclose anything he learned in a briefing. The Post reports:

“The assertion was delivered as a throwaway line during a lengthy discussion of foreign policy. But among U.S. intelligence officials, Trump’s claim amounts to an accusation of a serious breach of professional ethics.”

Former CIA Director Michael Morell said this proves Trump does not even understand the basics of how classified intelligence works, adding:

“This is the first time that I can remember a candidate for president doing a readout from an intelligence briefing, and it’s the first time a candidate has politicized their intelligence briefing. Both of those are highly inappropriate and crossed a long-standing red line respected by both parties. To me this is just the most recent example that underscores that this guy is unfit to be commander-in-chief.”

Morell’s comments were echoed by former CIA officer David Priess, who commented:

“This is unprecedented. We’ve had other presidential candidates mention that they got a briefing and talk in platitudes about it. We’ve never had somebody talk about what happened in a session.”

Trump loves to say that the fact Hillary Clinton used a private email server proves she cannot be trusted with classified information, but longtime intelligence operatives are in total agreement today: Donald Trump has once again disqualified himself from ever being Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. As the old saying goes, Loose lips sink ships.

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