Former Central
Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan said Saturday that he is “deeply
saddened and angered” by President Donald Trump’s “despicable display of self-aggrandizement”
during a speech in front of CIA employees.
Speaking at the spy agency he spent months disparaging, Trump
attacked the media for accurately reporting the crowd size at his inauguration,
criticized reporters over claims he removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr.
from the Oval Office and told his audience that “probably almost everybody in
this room voted for me.”
In his first press
briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer attacked
reporters and also peddled the lie that “this was the largest
audience to ever witness an inauguration, period,” despite photos and crowd
estimates clearly saying otherwise.
Standing in front of a
wall studded with 117 chiseled stars ― each for an agent who died in the line
of duty ― Trump also told CIA officials that the U.S. should have “kept the oil” after invading Iraq.
“Now I said it for
economic reasons,” he said. “But if you think about it, Mike, if we kept the
oil, you probably wouldn’t have ISIS because that’s where they made their money
in the first place, so we should have kept the oil.”
Taking Iraq’s oil would
be a violation of international law and United Nations agreements.
Some sections of this rambling speech are quite disturbing, for example, when Trump refers to the possibility the US "might get another chance" to invade Iraq.
Some sections of this rambling speech are quite disturbing, for example, when Trump refers to the possibility the US "might get another chance" to invade Iraq.
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