A breakdown of trust between Donald Trump and America's spy chiefs

I WON'. It is hard to overstate the psychological weight carried by those two words, offered by President-elect Donald Trump as evidence that 'the American public' does not care that he has not released his tax returns. The defiant words were flung out near the start of a rowdy press conference in the marble and brass lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan'the businessman's first formal question-and-answer session with reporters in half a year.Many mainstream Republicans, including members of Congress or business types excited by the chance to advance a conservative agenda of tax cuts and deregulation once they control the White House and both chambers of Congress, had hoped that by this moment, nine days from his inauguration, victory might make Mr Trump more magnanimous.That was not the President-elect Trump who turned up. Instead, the man who spoke to the world on the morning of January 11th was, whether judged in terms of his character or on questions of substance, the same bullying, thin-skinned but brilliantly populist man who campaigned with such success.The press wanted, first and foremost, to ask about an extraordinary few days in which...Continue reading
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