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
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)politicaljunkie41910
(3,335 posts)benld74
(9,909 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,167 posts)once he flees U.S. authorities for Moscow.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)GreydeeThos
(958 posts)Violation - lock him up.
ffr
(22,671 posts)Like Nixon's?
pnwmom
(108,991 posts)If not, why hasn't there been an uproar about this?
EarthFirst
(2,904 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)And email systems that aren't secure. Is this to help the Russians and Putin, and still have deniability?
FakeNoose
(32,739 posts)... 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)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)That Flowers By Irene delivery van has been parked near the White House for a very long time
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)moose65
(3,168 posts)We endured Hillary's emails 24/7 but get crickets about Trump's unsecure cell phone. UGH.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Beartracks
(12,821 posts)... even LESS control over security than a personal email server?
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kairos12
(12,870 posts)kimbutgar
(21,185 posts)But they can...
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Maraya1969
(22,495 posts)Hugin
(33,198 posts)Can't have that... Nosiree!
Nitram
(22,869 posts)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)No wonder I'm reading more and more conservatives (Republicans) speaking up. t-rump may unleash damaging information about them as well.