'Tip of the iceberg': Experts pounce on Trump nuclear secrets bombshell - Raw Story
By: David McAfee
ex-POTUS trump really knew how to get the dinner conversation started at mar-a-lardo...
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ABC News reported on Thursday that ex-president Donald Trump had shared nuclear secrets with a billionaire at his golf club, and experts were quick to react to how the report could affect Trump's current criminal case on classified document handling.
Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing in the Florida case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, has already weathered numerous reports about his purported sharing of confidential information. In this case, Trump is accused of sharing secret U.S. nuclear submarine details with a foreign national.
Reporter Molly Jong-Fast had a simple reply to the breaking news. "GOP front runner," she wrote Thursday.
Conservative lawyer and anti-Trump activist George Conway had this to say:
"Everyone who has accused P01135809 of selling the nation's secrets should profusely apologize. Out of innate charity, he gives them away for free," he wrote Thursday.
Reed Galen, co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, also chimed in:
"Disclosure of classified/secret/ts/sci information is a crime, too, I believer (sic). Where are my #natsec folks?" he wrote.
Former FBI agent Asha Rangappa had a unique take on the situation:
"Just a reminder that Trump had multiple meetings with Putin with no other American officials present. I'm sure it was fine though," she wrote Thursday.
CNN anchor Jim Sciutto said, "There is no more sensitive intelligence to the U.S., Russia and China today than that relating to submarine capabilities and detection."
Author and journalist David Rothkopf wrote on his social media that "For sure this is the tip of the iceberg of this sort of thing. He didn't keep all those classified docs because his inner archivist demanded it. It was because he saw value in them...and the value came from sharing the information with people who shouldn't have it."
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"as soon as I disclosed america's national secrets to anyone, they were declassified"...
Has this story been substantiated from a trusted source?
I seriously doubt that this story would appear in any sources you trust.
What would be a trusted source?
please, staying on topic is difficult enough for some...
Lets start with the basics, Who is making the claim? who is willing to go on record and say, I heard Donald Trump say X!
You'll have to wait. Breitbart and InfoWars havent been heard from yet.
Sure, have I stated support for the story anywhere?
Or the former 'president' which is where they get the majority of their PD&D and talking points.
Time and time again the treasonous/traitorous scum says 'I did nothing wrong'
JFC
and the endless defense of the indefensible continues
A bunch of Australians?
At least 45?
Thought far-right malfeasance was the topic.
the traitor scum shared top secret documents/classified with every Tom, Dick, and Ivan
We should find out if he's had any , or how many, private phone calls he has had with Putin since he left office.
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I’m sure Jim Jordan will be on the case. Oh, wait…only if Hunter was in on the call.
If true he needs to be held accountable. But this is a typical story from our lame-stream media that offers no evidence, only accusations.
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While I can see Trump doing something like this I found the quote above a bit odd to digest. The relevant part would be the six reporters, 10 Australian officials and three former Australian Prime Ministers. I find it a little hard to believe that six reporters apparently knew about this but either didn't publish anything about it or, if they did, no one noticed? (Remember, this allegedly occurred in April of 2021) And while maybe the 10 Australian officials were the equivalent of dog catchers, the three former Prime Ministers surely knew the importance of this. I mean, this Pratt guy seems to have told anyone who would listen to him, apparently. And who knows how many people all those other people told?
Like I said, I could see Trump doing it, but doesn't the two and a half years seem a bit strange to anyone else?
it only sounds strange to his cult/followers/enablers/supporters
Untrue, since I don't want Trump as president any more than I want Biden, and I think it's strange.
ABC News is reporting that Trump does not dispute the truth of the story.
A Trump spokesperson says the story lacks "context" and that Trump did nothing wrong.
It was a "perfect" exchange of classified information.
I'm interested to see the "context" that excuses this. "Trump did nothing wrong" is generally his lawyers' attempt to assert that "Trump is above the law."
I think you are correct Sandy.
I guess ABC news should be tried for treason.
Show us that that was classified information.
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Had this story been about Biden the cacophony coming from you would have been deafening.
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I believe I am correct about this - Trump is alleged to have given the exact number of missiles the subs carry, not an "up to" figure.
Since everyone is ignoring my comment in 5 above...
Alleged. So, okay, fine. Here's my problem with all of this. This alleged event happened two and a half years ago. If true, numerous people were told about it, probably the most relevant were six reporters and three former Prime Ministers of Australia, who would undoubtedly understand the seriousness of the breach of security.
Now the only thing I can definitively state about this is, apparently, this is the first the public has heard of this. If Trump actually did this then that's pretty bad, but I think you guys don't understand just how bad this may be. There are questions that need to be answered that, depending on the answer, may indicate failure or conspiracy on the part of others that would be just as bad as what Trump is alleged to have done. Important questions need answers. Some of the most obvious, to me at least, would be...
These are just a few of the questions that need answers.
And for those of you who think I'm trying to defend Trump or deflect from the hate fest in some way, you seriously need to take a step back from your emotions, prejudices and fantasies and listen to what I'm trying to tell you. If Trump actually did this I'd be first in line to nail Trump's balls to whatever AOC's favorite conservative torture device she has in her hidden dungeon.
But, for the love of truth, think about the many questions this thing demands. Perhaps the most important question is number four, because no matter how you slice it, it looks pretty bad to me. Either our security agencies knew of this and sat on information concerning a former president blabbing national security secrets to just anyone or they were blindsided by all of this.
Two and a half years, people! If Trump really did this then think of what that means. Put it on a scale. At some point, security agencies of the US had to become aware of this at some point. In one scenario, those agencies knew about this almost immediately. The other end of the scale is that they didn't know until we did, or close enough it makes no difference.
If the security agencies knew of this almost immediately, that's very bad. That would mean that they sat on the information for two and a half years while a former president was apparently divulging national security information. But the closer we get to the other end of the scale, that is , blindsided, it would mean our security services were so bad they missed a civilian telling six reporters and three former Prime Ministers of Australia being told secrets about our subs.
Am I the only one seeing this???
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The problem being that Trump has a big mouth and no sense of what classified means.
Trump is just a child who tries to impress assholes.
It's pretty simple, Pratt wanted something for his 200,000 dollar membership fee to Maralago.
Trump aims to please.
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