Monday on CNN’s “Right Now,” former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, also a CNN contributor, said President Donald Trump was putting the nation in “peril” by accepting the words of autocrats.
On the assassination of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Clapper said, “It’s completely infeasible, to me at least, that an operation like this, as complex as it was, mounted in another country to kill somebody would not have gone down without the knowledge, acquiescence, and I believe direction of Mohammad bin Salman. So the president, in this case, using his very elastic evidentiary bar is going to raise the bar very high.”
He added, “It does concern me though, that apparently he is willing to accept the words of autocrats like Putin and now Mohammad bin Salman over what his own intelligence community says, which I think over time, he does so at his peril and the peril of the nation.”
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