Q. Why is Trump casting aspersions on the intel community? A. To attack the messenger. Q. Why?

[skip fox]

A. Because when they later find and report anything unfavorable about his past or present, he can maintain he knew they were wrong all along and their new discoveries d*mn near confirm it.

Q. What might they find that would be so damaging to him that he would denigrate one of the nation's most important assets, an intelligence gathering-and-analysis community made up of seventeen agencies and costing billions of dollars a year?

A. Perhaps they will discover his camp colluded with the Russians by directing their hacking-targets and negotiating a third-party transfer to Assange, or find out that his own financial state is propped up by Russian banks and oligarchs, or . . . whatever.

Q. Where's the exit?

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In this manner did speculation unfold for me this morning.

[C_U_L8R]

1. One look at Trump

and it's clear that this is a man who's had a
life-long adversarial relationship with intelligence.

[skip fox]

2. I'm kicking this to

keep it in the public eye.

It explains so much of Trump's erratic behavior like harping on the hacking issue for far too long (months)* and souring his future relationship with his own intelligence advisors.


*The idea that he feels hacked-leaked material might tarnish his victory could be a "reason" to keep this up for a month, but several?

[UTUSN]

3. You're on to something, plus your other insight that they're investigating him & he

is building up a preemptive undermining of their credibility. It's funny that his pal Bibi has been interviewed by Israeli attorney general. If only they could cross the oceans and share a cell, perhaps on a NICE, private island!1

[Wounded Bear]

5. St Helena would work...

[Wounded Bear]

4. I doubt there is any "later" to it at all...

I'm sure they have plenty of dirt on him already. You can bet your ass that the CIA and NSA have seen his tax returns. He's been a bad risk for American banks for years, maybe decades. He's probably neck deep in Russian financing.

All the sign point to it.

[uponit7771]

6. He know's there's something up, even the US intel communities enemies just don't pick a fight with

... the US intel community cause they aint got shit else to do.