The glaring gulf between the world as it is and described by the Trump administration's top intelligence advisers, on one hand, and the world that President Donald Trump concocts out of thin air, on the other, embarrassed the president this week. He had to come up with a rather pathetic cover story to explain the serial contradictions:
Trump insisted that if you read the entire transcript of Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, you'd find that he is perfectly in accord with his intelligence professionals. (On Twitter he whined, "A false narrative is so bad for our Country. I value our intelligence community.