In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling \u2014 and honest \u2014 defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let this sink in, his defenders are saying he is too much of an ignorant, incurious moron to be able to betray much information: In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling \u2014 and honest \u2014 defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[860],"class_list":["post-100240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-evidence-for-the-impeachment"],"yoast_head":"\n
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