Trump to sign Executive Order cancelling intel spending. Agencies to rely on Fox instead.

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Despite international furor, Trump doubles down on Sweden terrorist attacks

Claims Fox News information more cost-effective than U.S. intelligence

Subsequent to President Trump's setting off consternation and ridicule on Saturday after he seemed to falsely imply to a throng of supporters at a rally in Florida that a terrorist attack had occurred in Sweden, the Trump team tried to control the fallout.

On Sunday, as questions swirled, a White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said, “he was talking about rising crime and recent incidents in general, not referring to a specific issue.”

But Huckabee Sanders’ explanation did not deter Trump who later tweeted that he was referring to a Fox News segment about an American filmmaker who argues that the police in Sweden are covering up a migrant-driven crime wave.

Officials in both countries expressed alarm and dismay at Mr. Trump’s remarks with Senator Bob Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat, suggesting that the president should get his information from intelligence agencies and not from television.

Responding to Casey’s criticism, Trump said that the U.S. spends $70 billion a year on intelligence, most of it bad, while he gets his information from Fox News, all of it good. And it only costs him the $110/month fee for Comcast, tweeting, “What’s more cost-effective? Give me a break!”

He went on to say that his team is working on an Executive Order for him to sign that will put a stop to all U.S. intelligence spending, substituting special cable TV subscriptions for the heads of every U.S. intelligence agency. 

Sources inside the White House say that those special subscriptions will broadcast Fox News but will block CNN and MSNBC in order to ensure no “fake news” gets into the hands of government officials.