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Who is providing Trump’s daily intelligence brief?

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Updated: Jan 30

Trump appointed Tulsi Gabbard to provide his daily intelligence brief, the President’s Daily Brief or “PDB“ — the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) does that, and Trump chose her for this crucial post, but she has not yet become confirmed by the U.S. Senate., the Secretary of ‘Defense’, Pete Hegseth, another “controversial” pick by Trump, was confirmed in a 50-50 tie vote, with V.P. Vance providing the crucial 51-50 tie-breaking vote.

However, Tump’s public statements as President thus far in his second term, have been so ludicrously ignorant of essential historical facts and current news-reporting from proven-reliable reporters and even from relevant official statements by the relevant Governments, so as to raise the question of what information he is getting in his daily intellikgence brief, and who is providing it to him.

 

On January 25th, the great geostrategic analyst Alexander Mercouris (who has rare total-recall memory and also first-rate logical-analytical skills to integrate the vast information he brings to bear on every detail he discusses in his daily videos) headlined “Trump Threats Backfire; Moscow: Trump Bluffing, Hardens Stance; China Saudi Ignore Trump Calls,“ VIDEO below and provided essential information from open sources, which pertains directly to what the U.S. President’s daily intelligence brief OUGHT to be bringing to his attention. 



If whomever is now providing the daily intelligence brief, is NOT including to Trump the crucial information that Mercouris is here presenting, then I would not consider that person to be doing an adequate job, because Mercouris’s analysis makes clear that Trump is atrociously misinformed about very important matters that a U.S. President needs to know and truthfully understand.

 

His ignorance and misinformation is dangerous. As Mercouris makes clear, Trump tragically starts his second term ignorant of, and confusingly misrepresenting, crucial facts.

 

On January 20th, the White House listed the individuals who are the temporary stand-ins until Trump’s appointees will obtain Senate approvals, and here is that complete list:

 

 

Ammon, Matthew                  Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Ashworth, Gary                              Secretary of the Air Force

Averill, Mark                                 Secretary of the Army

Carter, Denise                              Secretary of Education

Cruickshank, Walter                   Secretary of the Interior

Emmert, Terence                    Secretary of the Navy

Fink, Dorothy                              Secretary of Health and Human Services

Huffman, Benjamine                Secretary of Homeland Security

Hunter, Todd                              Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Kaleta, Judith                              Secretary of Transportation

Kenna, Lisa                                Secretary of State

Kolb, Ingrid                                    Secretary of Energy

Lebryk, David                              Secretary of the Treasury

Micone, Vincent                       Secretary of Labor

Pelter, Jeremy                              Secretary of Commerce

Salesses, Robert                    Secretary of Defense

Washington, Gary                   Secretary of Agriculture

 

McHenry, James                    Attorney General

 

Ehikian, Stephen                   Administrator of General Services

Gray, Jason                           Administrator of the United States Agency for International                                                        Development

Payne, James                              Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Petro, Janet                                 Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space                                                          Administration

Woodel, Everett                    Administrator of the Small Business Administration

 

Dixon, Stacey                              Director of National Intelligence

Driscoll, Brian                              Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Ezell, Charles                              Director of the Office of Personnel Management

Sylvester, Jr., Thomas                Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Vaeth, Matthew                   Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Vitello, Caleb                              Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 

King, Michelle                              Commissioner of Social Security

 

Millan, Juan                            United States Trade Representative

 

 

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