Donald Trump does NOT look at Communist or Socialist Leaders as enemies of his country….
In fact he likes those leaders for their absolute power….
Two year into the Presidency?
The national’s intelligence community has moved to stop giving their views on the traditional acts of the traditional advesaries and begun to feed their top client, Donald Trump, news about something he understands and is taking advantage of…economics , business and trade….
The New York State Real Estate guy couldn’t care less about other things….
Intelligence officials who brief the president have warned him about Chinese espionage in bottom-line business terms. They have used Black Sea shipping figures to demonstrate the effect of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. And they have filled the daily threat briefing with charts and graphs of economic data.
In an effort to accommodate President Trump, who has attacked them publicly as “naïve” and in need of going “back to school,” the nation’s intelligence agencies have revamped their presentations to focus on subjects their No. 1 customer wants to hear about — economics and trade.
Intelligence officers, steeped in how Mr. Trump views the world, now work to answer his repeated question: Who is winning? What the president wants to know, according to former officials, is what country is making more money or gaining a financial advantage.
While the professionals do not criticize Mr. Trump’s focus, they do question whether those interests are crowding out intelligence on threats like terrorism and the maneuvers of traditional adversaries, developments with foreign militaries or geopolitical events with international implications…..