Trump says he'll reject U.S. intelligence assessments he disagrees with
by Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Feb 03, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Despite growing foreign-policy misgivings about him even within the Republican Party, President Donald Trump insisted in an interview aired Sunday that he feels free to ignore the assessments of his intelligence chiefs and instead act on his own beliefs.
In the interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," the president also appeared to soften his claim that the senior intelligence officials who testified before Congress last week subsequently told him that their views had been distorted in news reports.
Their televised testimony contradicted Trump's positions on a variety of subjects and
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