Trump attacks sacked US intel official

By By Jeff Mason and James Oliphant
Updated April 5 2020 - 8:08am, first published 8:04am
Donald Trump says the sacked inspector general of the US intelligence community did a terrible job.
Donald Trump says the sacked inspector general of the US intelligence community did a terrible job.

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to fire the top watchdog of the US Intelligence Community, saying Michael Atkinson did "a terrible job" in handling the whistleblower complaint that triggered an impeachment probe of Trump last year.

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