“It was simply not something, despite repeated efforts, I could get Trump to focus on strategically,” wrote Bolton in “The Room Where It Happened,” an account of his time in the Trump administration. He said, ‘I just want to look at the picture.’”Ībout an hour later, Trump tweeted the picture.īut during the Trump presidency, officials had difficulty getting the president’s attention on the subject. “Gina may have said something like, ‘Well, don’t do anything with it, don’t show it to anybody.’ But I think he just blew them off. Officials had been nervous about leaving the image with the president, according to the former official, who attended the meeting. “And after some hesitation, the intelligence briefer said, 'Yes.'" “Trump thought this was very neat, and asked if he could keep it,” said a former Trump administration official. Included in that morning’s briefing materials was a classified image, taken by satellite, of the botched rocket launch, showing extensive damage to the site. The previous day, Iran had attempted to launch a satellite into space, but the launch had failed spectacularly, with the rocket exploding on the pad. 30, 2019, then-President Donald Trump was receiving his daily intelligence briefing with a a select group of senior national security officials, including CIA Director Gina Haspel, national security adviser John Bolton and other top aides.
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