( CNN) At FBI field offices and CIA stations various regions of the world, our nation's intelligence professionals turned on their televisions Monday and witnessed their own commander in chief take to the airwaves and wholly undermine their work.
Apropos of nothing, but clearly use it as an opportunity to sidestep the difficult question at hand, Trump brought up Clinton's use of a private email server and seemed to peddle his favorite conspiracy hypothesi about how exhaustively the FBI actually conducted the investigation of Clinton and the hacking of the DNC's emails.
Most astonishing, President Trump then went on to cast doubt on the conclusions of his own intelligence community and offer a moral equivalency between Putin — a former KGB operative who has long ran against America's national security — and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
