Joe Biden: He and the President Were Briefed On Trump Dossier

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Vice President Joe Biden pauses between mock swearing in ceremonies in the Old Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, as the 115th Congress begins. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

(NEWSER) – President Obama received a briefing last week on a dossier with allegations of compromising material being held by the Russians on his successor, Joe Biden has confirmed.

Biden says intelligence chiefs also briefed him on the dossier, but neither his officer nor Obama’s requested more information, CNN reports. Biden—who says he read the entire 35-page report distributed by intelligence agencies—tells the AP that Obama wondered: “What does this have to do with anything?” Biden says intelligence leaders responded: “Well, we feel obliged to tell you, Mr. President, because you may hear about it,” and because they had told Donald Trump about the dossier. Senators say the Intelligence Committee was also briefed.

Biden tells the AP that Trump shouldn’t be publicly attacking intelligence officials—or making comparisons to Nazi Germany. He says it is “very damaging” for a president “to take one of the crown jewels of our national defense and denigrate it,” he says. “It plays into, particularly now, the Russian narrative that America doesn’t know what it’s doing.” Biden says at least five foreign leaders have contacted him with their concerns about Trump’s criticism of intelligence agencies.

He says that he’s been sending his own successor, Mike Pence, advice on tricky relationships with foreign leaders and on “the things that could explode most easily.”

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P.L. Everts
7 years ago

Donald Drumpf is the least qualified person to hold the Presidency in the modern era. He is an ego with bad hair and no experience with diplomacy (The Apprentice illustrates well his asinine “leadership”. This individual is a fool of epic proportions whose life is an illustration of evil, sloth, sexual predatory behavior and fundamental stupidity.

Reply to  P.L. Everts
7 years ago

Dangerous. You forgot dangerous.

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