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On the recordJuly 17, 2018
Well, certainly in the past it's been terrible. You look at Brennan, you look at Clapper, you look at Hayden, you look at Comey, you look at McCabe, you look at Strzok and his lover, Lisa Page. You look at other people in the FBI that have been fired, that are no longer there. Certainly I can't have any confidence in the past, but I can have a lot of confidence in the present and the future, because it's getting to be now where we're putting our people in.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Trump expresses a lack of confidence in past intelligence officials while stating he has confidence in the current intelligence community.

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