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Former intelligence chief shrugs off Trump with a self-deprecating quip: I thought things would improve 'once he got rid of the two "Nazis"'

"I think he likes intelligence on a selective basis."

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared to take exception to President Donald Trump's claim that "nobody has greater respect for intelligence," than he does — and harked back to a time when Trump railed against the US intelligence community.

And I honestly thought that his assessment of the intelligence community would improve once he got rid of the two 'Nazis,' the two principal 'Nazis,' meaning John Brennan and myself," Clapper quipped. "So I recognize that, you know, he's entitled to have his own team, and his own leadership in charge of the intelligence community, and he has that."

Clapper appeared to reference Trump's tweet, following reports of an unverified dossier that purportedly had damaging information on Trump. Trump blamed the US intelligence community for the leak and dismissed the community's assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.

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Clapper clarified the reasoning behind his own self-deprecating quip in which he jokingly called himself and Brennan "Nazis:"

"Well, I think when the president at his news conference ... was complaining about the intelligence community assessment and the fact that it was leaked," Clapper said, "and of course automatically blamed the intelligence community for that, and referred to Nazis, likened us to Nazis."

"I think he really had in mind John Brennan and myself, and perhaps as things unfolded, Jim Comey," Clapper said, referring to former

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