Donald Trump says he's leery of U.S. intelligence — despite the fact that as the Republican presidential nominee, he'll begin receiving intelligence briefings Wednesday morning. On Tuesday night, Trump admitted he doesn't really trust intelligence from "the people that have been doing it for our country. I mean, look what's happened over the last 10 years. Look what's happened over the years. It's been catastrophic," Trump told Fox News' Ainsley Earhardt.
Because of that distrust, Trump said he won't be hiring people who are "your standard [hires]" because they've made "such bad decisions." "You look at Iraq. You look at the Middle East. It's a total powder keg. It's a — if we would have never touched it, it would have been a lot better," Trump said. "On top of which, we've spent probably $4 trillion. Nobody even knows what we've spent."
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