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Schumer Enters Fray as Trump’s Clash with Intel Chiefs Heats Up

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Schumer Enters Fray as Trump’s Clash with Intel Chiefs Heats UpSenate minority leader Chuck Schumer released an open letter to top U.S. intelligence officials on Wednesday evening urging them to hold an intervention for President Trump amid a growing fight between the White House and the Intelligence community over the latter’s assessment of foreign threats. “I believe it is incumbent on you, [FBI] Director [Christopher] Wray and [CIA] Director [Gina] Haspel to insist on an immediate meeting with the President to educate him about the facts and raw intelligence underlying the Intelligence Community assessments,” the New York Democrat wrote in his letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. It’s past time for U.S. Intelligence Community leaders to stage an intervention with @realDonaldTrump.