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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats in their Oval Office meeting last week
Link to tweet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.56966db769a7
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,557 posts)trueblue2007
(17,237 posts)Lock him up! Lock him up!!! Lock him up! Lock him up!!! Lock him up!Lock him up!!!
i am feeling so sick over this story. sick, sad and very scared. what will become of our country when the president yaps to the russians.
blogslut
(38,007 posts)MineralMan
(146,325 posts)That's my opinion. He could destroy everything.
mhw
(678 posts)This is stunning.
He does whatever he wants, just like any dictator would behave and the longer he is left to do so, the more power to continue he acquires.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,944 posts)That is just Trump being Trump!
No harm done - HA HA HA
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)fraction of a man.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to commit suicide before torture. If not, it may still be ongoing. Bastards!
haele
(12,673 posts)Just like the Fredo he is.
Probably went down like this...
"Hey Sergy 1 and Sergy 2 - you don't mind if I call you guys that, right? Guess what we have planned for those Isis Camel Jockeys...(incoherently delivered classified information, along with boasting on how great this plan would be to all the guys who voted for him )" ... "Think Putin would be impressed?"
Haele
MaeScott
(878 posts)seaglass
(8,173 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)Phoenix61
(17,013 posts)Disclose classified information to an enemy. At what point do they get off their collective asses and impeach this threat to our nation? Are the waiting till he gives them the football and the codes? WTF!!!
JoeStuckInOH
(544 posts)With the authority to basically classify or declassify anything at a whim. Technically, I think the president HAS NO clearance level. His office is quite literally above classification.
If I'm correctly understanding where the presidential office fits into the classified data scheme... then it really doesn't matter what he shared with Russia as long it wasn't nuclear restricted data (the DOE has final classification authority of sensitive nuclear restricted data).
seaglass
(8,173 posts)kpete
(72,012 posts)bora13
(860 posts)18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Stuart G
(38,439 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Do this to your allies enough times, and you don't get their information any more.
Might be kind of a problem down the road.
MaeScott
(878 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Although not literally everyone in the office, just him.
Diplomatically? Big time fuck up.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)I'm sure the President could force a look at anything classified, but there would be procedure involved.
Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)The intelligence briefings are going to get sparse from here forward. They once dropped Roosevelt from the loop for a while during WWII because a classified document was found in a waste paper bin.
kacekwl
(7,021 posts)is notify the FBI the CIA and congress that this man is incompetent and unable to do the job according to the oath he took. Congress should start the impeachment process. If they were really patriots they should appoint NOW an independent investigation on Trumps whole cabal . Get the traitors out .
trof
(54,256 posts)But it fits his MO to a 'T'.
"Sergei...did you know we're getting some GREAT intel on ISIS out of Israel?
It's BIG LEAGUE, believe me. Never been done before. Not under Obama, not under anybody.
Those jews, they love me. And I love them. My son-in-law is a jew.
Those jews have guys in all their ISIS cells and they're leaking like a sieve.
Hey, ya know I would've won the popular vote if all those illegals hadn't voted illegally."
IADEMO2004
(5,557 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)bora13
(860 posts)and it follows the constant projection by t-rump for the last two years. hang 'im? how high?
dmr
(28,349 posts)Seriously.
This immature braggart "I got the best intel" asshole is endangering us all!
Heaven only knows what else he has said or done.
Fuck him, and all his treasonous enablers!
He feels deserving of loyalty oaths? Well, damn it! He needs, no, he must, must not betray the oath he swore to last January 20th.
kpete
(72,012 posts)eleny
(46,166 posts)I love a good snark. But this had me thinking, good god - he's set us back while lurching our troops into more danger.
Tarring & feathering is too good for this criminal.
PsychoBabble
(837 posts)IN.COMP.E.TENT.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)Jesus wept. He told the Russians where the data had been acquired by our intel partner, creating a shorter list where ISIS can look for a spy.
Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic States territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Has that changed? I don't remember the standard White House Big Reveal whenever Donnie boy makes a boombie in the pot.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)tanyev
(42,598 posts)At best.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)and then locked up.
Disgusting. Degrading. Deplorable.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Duppers
(28,125 posts)This narcissist is a vortex of neediness.
bora13
(860 posts)18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)and the Donald got two scoops of vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and the Russian got one scoop so he got his "just desserts" so don't worry about it. "It was a great meeting. Great. We really had a nice time. I look forward to having more ice cream with my friend in the future. Great friend. Good ice cream."
Amaryllis
(9,525 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)WOW................
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Even though I KNEW this was coming; it had to come given the manbaby in the White House, I still feel like someone punched me in the solar plexus.
My god, what we could have had. And what we do have.