Donald Trump has access to the kind of information-gathering operation of which most of us could only dream.

He has the option of a morning daily briefing on the world’s most important issues pulled together for him personally by the best-funded intelligence agencies on the planet. If he has a particular question, the resources of the most powerful surveillance state in history are at his beck and call. There is almost no secret on the planet that could be kept from him.

Unfortunately – or perhaps luckily for his opponents – President Trump seems largely uninterested in any of that, as he seems more than willing to get his news and information from anyone in his orbit who flatters him enough and butters his team up the right way.

Nowhere was this more apparent than when this week he shared with reporters that he was “very angry” about a supposed drone attack by Ukraine on Vladimir Putin’s residence – condemning the alleged incident with his usual articulacy, deeming it “not good”.

Traditionally,

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