This is Psychological Warfare 

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Trump’s Laugh Track is Tricking America

But Trump’s seemingly warm reception might have been manufactured, according to The Washington Post’s lead fact-checker, Glenn Kessler. “The pool reports indicate the cheering and clapping was not from the CIA staffers but people who accompanied Trump,” Kessler tweeted.

Brennan also deplored the rally-style event, according to his former deputy chief of staff Nick Shapiro. Brennan “is deeply saddened and angered at Donald Trump’s despicable display of self-aggrandizement in front of CIA’s Memorial Wall of Agency heroes,” Shapiro said in a statement provided to Newsweek. “Trump should be ashamed of himself.”

This is Psychological Warfare – Medium

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CBS Confirms Reports that Donald Trump Brought A Cheering Section With Him to CIA Visit

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CBS News confirmed reports that President Donald Trump brought a studio audience to his visit with the CIA on Saturday. The news agency reports that an official said the visit left a wake of “unease,” “made relations with the intelligence community worse,” and was “uncomfortable.”

CBS Confirms Reports that Donald Trump Brought A Cheering Section With Him to CIA Visit

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Women’s March Highlights as Huge Crowds Protest Trump: ‘We’re Not Going Away’

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Attendance in New York City was more than 400,000, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office. The St. Paul police issued an official crowd count of 50,000 to 60,000 people. Attendance in Boston was 175,000, according to Nicole Caravella, a spokeswoman for Mayor Martin J. Walsh. The Atlanta Police Department estimated about 60,000 people attended a rally there. The Department of Public Safety in Phoenix estimated that some 20,000 marched, while in Key West, Fla., a town of 25,000, police said more than 2,000 people marched.

Organizers in Chicago estimated the crowd there at 250,000, the Chicago Tribune said.

…The Associated Press reported that the District of Columbia’s homeland security director, Christopher Geldart, said it was safe to say the crowd at the march there was more than the 500,000 that organizers told city officials to expect. [emphasis: mine]

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Trump inauguration protest damages parts of downtown Washington

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Earlier in the day, as guests were going in to the ceremony, lines for ticket-holders entering two gates stretched for blocks at one point as protesters clogged entrances.

…At one checkpoint, protesters wore orange jumpsuits with black hoods over their faces to represent prisoners in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay. Eleanor Goldfield, who helped organize the Disrupt J20 protest, said protesters wanted to show Mr. Trump and his “misguided, misinformed or just plain dangerous” supporters that they won’t be silent.

…Outside the International Spy Museum, protesters in Russian hats ridiculed Trump’s praise of President Vladimir Putin, marching with signs calling Mr. Trump “Putin’s Puppet” and “Kremlin employee of the month.”

In New York, Democratic Councilman Jumaane Williams and other protesters were arrested outside Trump Tower in Manhattan after sitting on Fifth Avenue. Other demonstrators chanted loudly but the event remained peaceful.

…The demonstrations won’t end when Mr. Trump takes up residence in the White House. A massive Women’s March on Washington is planned for Saturday. Christopher Geldart, the District of Columbia’s homeland security director, has said 1,800 buses have registered to park in the city Saturday, which could mean nearly 100,000 people coming in just by bus.

Trump inauguration protest damages parts of downtown Washington – CBS News

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U.S. Stealth Bombers Strike ISIS Training Camps In Libya 

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The Pentagon said the two ISIS training camps housed fighters who had escaped their former stronghold in Sirte, on Libya’s central coast. It added that militants there were planning attacks in Europe.

…Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the precision strikes 45 kilometers southwest of Sirte were part of a mission that lasted more than 30 hours. As NPR’s Philip Ewing reports, the Pentagon picked stealth bombers that took off from Missouri “as opposed to American units already in Europe — because they had so many targets to hit, and wanted to strike them all at once.”

U.S. Stealth Bombers Strike ISIS Training Camps In Libya : The Two-Way : NPR

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Rick Perry regrets push to eliminate Energy Department 

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Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was nominated by Donald Trump to lead the Department of Energy, said Thursday that he regrets his previous calls to shutter the agency…

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Rick Perry regrets push to eliminate Energy Department – CBS News

Oh yeah, and he now thinks Climate change is a real thing. Heaven help us…