Tuesday’s report released by the intelligence community contradicted many of the president’s assessments of threats from North Korea, Iran, and ISIS.
One day after leaders of the intelligence community presented to Congress the findings of this year’s Worldwide Threat Assessment report, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to rebuke all of their major conclusions.
Tuesday’s report contradicted many of the president’s own assessments of threats from North Korea, Iran, and the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). But rather than accept the assessment of his government’s intelligence professionals, Trump ridiculed them and said that they should “go back to school.”
“The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. They are wrong! When I became President Iran was making trouble all over the Middle East, and beyond. Since ending the terrible Iran Nuclear Deal, they are MUCH different, but a source of potential danger and conflict,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning.
“They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge.
