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brooklynite

(94,724 posts)
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 04:59 PM Apr 2018

Trump ramps up personal cell phone use

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump is increasingly relying on his personal cell phone to contact outside advisers, multiple sources inside and outside the White House told CNN, as Trump returns to the free-wheeling mode of operation that characterized the earliest days of his administration.

"He uses it a lot more often more recently," a senior White House official said of the President's cell phone.

Sources cited Trump's stepped-up cell phone use as an example of chief of staff John Kelly's waning influence over who gets access to the President. During the early days of Kelly's tenure, multiple sources said, Trump made many of his calls from the White House switchboard -- a tactic that allowed the chief of staff to receive a printed list of who Trump had phoned. Kelly has less insight into who Trump calls on his personal cell phone.

While Trump never entirely gave up his personal cell phone once Kelly came aboard, one source close to the White House speculated that the President is ramping up the use of his personal device recently in part because "he doesn't want Kelly to know who he's talking to."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/donald-trump-cell-phone/index.html

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Trump ramps up personal cell phone use (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2018 OP
Well, Putin wants to hear it too dalton99a Apr 2018 #1
It's probably Putin he's talking to. politicaljunkie41910 Apr 2018 #19
What's another security breach at this point of the game,,,,, right? benld74 Apr 2018 #2
Trump wants to make sure he'll still have access to urinating prostitutes... LudwigPastorius Apr 2018 #3
Trump thinks he is in control Angry Dragon Apr 2018 #4
Federal Records Act GreydeeThos Apr 2018 #5
The NSA or CIA or FBI should have the recordings. Will this be 45's tapes? ffr Apr 2018 #12
Is this a government issued Blackberry that has been made secure, like Obama's? pnwmom Apr 2018 #6
Because. Republican. nt EarthFirst Apr 2018 #22
Using personal phones unsecured duforsure Apr 2018 #7
If he's using an unsecured cell phone FakeNoose Apr 2018 #8
From that randomly parked car Corgigal Apr 2018 #9
Well... rpannier Apr 2018 #24
My first thought, he is talking to Cohen. notdarkyet Apr 2018 #16
But her emails! DesertRat Apr 2018 #10
NOT TO WORRY--the repugs are talking about that chestnut also. riversedge Apr 2018 #23
Scandalous, right? moose65 Apr 2018 #26
Law Enforcement & Intell Community found many cellphone listening devices in Washington DC. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2018 #11
+1 dalton99a Apr 2018 #14
Is that like using a personal email server, but with... Beartracks Apr 2018 #13
Next it will be Maxwell Smart's Cone of Silence. kairos12 Apr 2018 #15
Meaning the intelligence agencies cant moniter his calls to Putin kimbutgar Apr 2018 #17
This certainly creates enough of a security risk to tap his phone. world wide wally Apr 2018 #18
I bet Mueller is keeping records or his calls. Maraya1969 Apr 2018 #20
Just so long as it's not an email server. Hugin Apr 2018 #21
Foreign intelligence agencies must love Trump's personal cell phone use. Nitram Apr 2018 #25
Besides Mueller listening so is the world's IC. Iliyah Apr 2018 #27
He'll give up Ivanka before he gives up his bankie. n/t Orsino Apr 2018 #28

LudwigPastorius

(9,167 posts)
3. Trump wants to make sure he'll still have access to urinating prostitutes...
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 05:05 PM
Apr 2018

once he flees U.S. authorities for Moscow.

pnwmom

(108,991 posts)
6. Is this a government issued Blackberry that has been made secure, like Obama's?
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 05:13 PM
Apr 2018

If not, why hasn't there been an uproar about this?

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
7. Using personal phones unsecured
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 05:16 PM
Apr 2018

And email systems that aren't secure. Is this to help the Russians and Putin, and still have deniability?

FakeNoose

(32,739 posts)
8. If he's using an unsecured cell phone
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 05:25 PM
Apr 2018

... then we can assume Mueller is listening to everything he says. Most likely he's talking to Hannity who's also under investigation. There's not much he can hide at this point.

Just sayin'

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
9. From that randomly parked car
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 05:41 PM
Apr 2018

a block over. Secret Service might even know where it's parked, but hey...If Trump is that stupid then Mueller can have it all. Forgot the name of the device, but it's also used in areas of drug dealing.

Trump could look it up, but then he would have to read and shut up. I don't believe he can do either.

rpannier

(24,337 posts)
24. Well...
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 11:37 PM
Apr 2018

That Flowers By Irene delivery van has been parked near the White House for a very long time

moose65

(3,168 posts)
26. Scandalous, right?
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:09 AM
Apr 2018

We endured Hillary's emails 24/7 but get crickets about Trump's unsecure cell phone. UGH.

Beartracks

(12,821 posts)
13. Is that like using a personal email server, but with...
Mon Apr 23, 2018, 06:32 PM
Apr 2018

... even LESS control over security than a personal email server?

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Nitram

(22,869 posts)
25. Foreign intelligence agencies must love Trump's personal cell phone use.
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 08:37 AM
Apr 2018

I wouldn't doubt that the FBI could get a warrant to listen in on his personal cell phone if he's under investigation.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
27. Besides Mueller listening so is the world's IC.
Tue Apr 24, 2018, 09:14 AM
Apr 2018

No wonder I'm reading more and more conservatives (Republicans) speaking up. t-rump may unleash damaging information about them as well.

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