re: #376 Sir John Barron

Have we ever had a POTUS who routinely trashed, ignored and contradicted the Intelligence findings of his own country’s IC of which he was nominally in charge?

Rhetorical question

Look, there are times when a president takes the advice from their IC and goes against their preferences. There are times when they follow the IC recommendations and it goes all wrong (Bay of Pigs anyone).

Trump consistently ignores IC, facts, logic, stats, evidence, produced by his own government when it counters everything he fucking says.

He lies about everything. He lies about immigration and the border crisis. He lies about foreign policy. He lies about the economy and the benefits of the tax scam TCJA. He was more interested in getting the name of the tax scam just right than paying attention to the details of what it’d do to the economy long term (CBO - long term effect is bupkus, with massive debt in the process).