President Trump said Wednesday that he knows more about the state of key U.S. intelligence than his own top intelligence officials. But he doesn’t even appear to know that those intelligence officials spoke publicly when they contradicted him. While trying Thursday afternoon to defuse his disputes with those officials, Trump told the assembled press that they had all ironed it out. In fact, he said, those officials told him they were “totally misquoted.”“I did" talk to them, he said, "and they said that they were totally misquoted, and they were totally — it was taken out of context. It’s quite simply very hard to believe that intelligence officials ever told Trump they had been misquoted.

Source: Washington Post January 31, 2019 23:48 UTC