Many are not feeling betrayed by the President, rather they may be feeling there are others trying to blind the President and steer him toward their agenda because there are still Obama holdovers and who knows what trouble these embeds can make.
As for me, I am only concerned that the intelligence presented to the President is solid, that there are no spins on it, no omissions of fact. I am only concerned that he is getting complete coverage of information or that it is readily available on demand.
If the chemical attack was staged and caused by ISIS rebels, I don’t care if the President busted up and wrecked a bunch of Syrian jets. What matters is he received the very best, the most complete, accurate, raw intelligence without compromise.
The President is allowed to bluff and trick in war. In war, he is not required to be transparent or even truthful. As long as the intelligence he receives is solid, he is free to make confusion and chaos as he sees fit to protect Americans. If the intelligence is faulty, the President can be made a fool; this is what I fear.
What happened in Syria is so clear that even if the intelligence community tried to fool him, they couldn’t do it. I think your fear is unfounded.
Putin was proposing that as the reason today.
Oh ye of little faith. The entire world and its media have tried for almost two years to make a fool off Trump. He is called Tefflon Don for a reason. If you still have doubts about his strength and intelligence, you should at least be reassured when he has Mad Dog Mattis by his side!