The part that i wasn’t expecting, sitting at a picnic table with the former CIA director near the center of a working farm with goats and chickens and a cider barn, was when a man interrupted us—just as we were starting to talk about Barack Obama’s initial reaction to intelligence reports of Russian election hacking—and asked if we could help him jump his car battery. He had no idea that this was John Brennan climbing over the fence in his oxfords, showing him how to hook up the cables, making sure he wasn’t going far to get home, and revving the engine until the pale-blue Subaru started again.
The Atlantic: Why Donald Trump made CIA director John Brennan uneasy
US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on September 30, 2020. - President Trump is heading to Minnesota for a fundraiser and a campaign rally. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
