Trump Revealed Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister - WashPo

[Krigaren]

I don't even understand why he would do this.

Because Trump is a self-important braggart. He has super secret classified info and he just couldn't stop himself from sharing it with his best Russian pals, likely in an attempt to impress them with how great American intelligence is.

[bufferunderrun]

He talks about national security like he's hawking a Trump Steak on us.

What the fuck?!

i won't be surprised if, to impress someone, he shot a nuclear missile with the nuclear bag and then auto-destruct it few miles away from another nation; he is the kind of guys who would do something so stupid.

[Puupi]

Come on America. Get your shit together and impeach that clown. How long are you going to just sit and watch this charade?

[Bullettime]

i won't be surprised if, to impress someone, he shot a nuclear missile with the nuclear bag and then auto-destruct it few miles away from another nation; he is the kind of guys who would do something so stupid.

Wilbur Ross admitted that the Syrian missile strike he launched was done as dessert entertainment to wave his dick in front of Chinese leaders.

[Spriggs]

Two US officials who were briefed on Trump’s disclosures last week confirmed to BuzzFeed News the veracity of the Post report, with one official noting that “it’s far worse than what has already been reported.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympl...4AY#.lsBzVxYbV

[Skroe]

Hopefully the shit hits the fan this week. This is an excellent opportunity, especially if the leaks originate in Europe.

Trump is headed to Europe and the Middle East next week for a series of summits. It'll be very difficult for him to response due to difference in timezone and isolation from his staff at the White House.

He's isolated. Go for the throat.

[Azadina]

Wilbur Ross admitted that the Syrian missile strike he launched was done as dessert entertainment to wave his dick in front of Chinese leaders.

Well, the timeline is a perfect match for that to be true.

[Wyrt]

Come on America. Get your shit together and impeach that clown. How long are you going to just sit and watch this charade?

Until Republicans in congress pull their faces out of Trump's ass.

[Bullettime]

Hopefully the shit hits the fan this week. This is an excellent opportunity, especially if the leaks originate in Europe.

Trump is headed to Europe and the Middle East next week for a series of summits. It'll be very difficult for him to response due to difference in timezone and isolation from his staff at the White House.

He's isolated. Go for the threat.

Exactly. I feel like if the GOP are going to make a move and finally be rid of his ass, Trump has handed them multiple golden opportunities now. Leaking information like this would also be an easy way for Fox and such to get people on board with Trump's removal.

I don't think it will happen, but this would be the prime time to nail him to the wall over his mental capacity.

[Adolecent]

Our worst fears confirmed.


For anti-Trump people, this is excellent news believe it or not. I wrote yesterday that the most likely series of events is that the news story about Trump's relations with the Russians will break in Europe as a result of an official leak from their government to their media outlets, in response to Trump endangering their national security.

Something like this (though not necessarily this) is exactly what it would take.

Hang him for Treason.

Trial him in Arkansas, and i'll mail a crate of Midazolam.

[Dug]

I don't see the powers that be making a big stink out of this but of course it's brain dead retarded from Don Cheeto. Maybe if republicans in congress grow a spine.

[Machismo]

Well, clearly he needs to go to prison, since he's releasing classified information, just like Hillary and Michael Flynn did. Now, let's see all the people line up to defend him.

[Bullettime]

I don't see the powers that be making a big stink out of this but of course it's brain dead retarded from Don Cheeto. Maybe if republicans in congress grow a spine.

I'm hoping that this is finally something that they'll flip on him over. This is an outright natsec issue and Trump proving to the globe that he can't be trusted with classified intelligence of this magnitude

[Skroe]

Exactly. I feel like if the GOP are going to make a move and finally be rid of his ass, Trump has handed them multiple golden opportunities now. Leaking information like this would also be an easy way for Fox and such to get people on board with Trump's removal.

You know what kind of amuses me to? ISIS... the terrorist/rapist/murderer army of degenerates isolated to a few desert cities on the other side of the planet that the far right has built up to be the greatest threat to human freedom since the Nazis.

Trump improperly shared very sensitive intel about their Greatest of Boogymen. Not climate change or North Korea. Not Pakistan and Al Qaeda. Not Iran. Fucking. ISIS. The obsession of the paranoid hard right and the deplorables who think that that army of rapists is going to come to rural Montana and steal their daughters.

Talk about falling on your own sword.

[Bullettime]

Well, clearly he needs to go to prison, since he's releasing classified information, just like Hillary and Michael Flynn did. Now, let's see all the people line up to defend him.

He can't and won't go to jail over this because of his position as president. But it highlights a huge issue in his mental capacity and ability to properly govern which allows for removal under the 25th.

When you combine it with other actions he's outright made while president, disregarding even the Trump-Russia issue, this is a cherry of monumental proportions to place on the top.

[Z-Man]

He can declassify some stuff through Executive Orders unless the information is protected by other laws (such as Intelligence Identities Protection Act).

If he's blabbing the information before it's been declassified by an EO, then the information is still classified and he's violated the law and his oath.

The end result of this is that the intelligence agencies will treat him as a Russian spy and go dark on anything more important than what flavor ice cream he likes. "Syria, Mr. President? Never heard of it. Is that a new golf course?"

[Etselion]

Locker room talk? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Skroe]

He can declassify some stuff through Executive Orders unless the information is protected by other laws (such as Intelligence Identities Protection Act).

If he's blabbing the information before it's been declassified by an EO, then the information is still classified and he's violated the law and his oath.

The end result of this is that the intelligence agencies will treat him as a Russian spy and go dark on anything more important than what flavor ice cream he likes. "Syria, Mr. President? Never heard of it. Is that a new golf course?"

It was reported earlier in the year that even US intelligence were basically assuming anything that enters the hands of the White House staff is going to be seen by the Russians.

[lockedout]

For being a threat to national security and general all-round incompetence. That goes under the 25th amendment.

I know you love him because of his white nationalist rhetoric, but you are going to need to find a white nationalist who isn't incompetent and doesn't pose a national security threat for 2020. Trump just isn't cutting it.

Personally, I thought he'd be out sometime in early 2019 after the mid-terms. Looks like I was too generous in my estimation of Trump.

He'll finish out his term, sorry.

[Machismo]

He can't and won't go to jail over this because of his position as president. But it highlights a huge issue in his mental capacity and ability to properly govern which allows for removal under the 25th.

I was joking, btw. The President has authority to declassify information. So, since he has done that, they should make that information available to the public. If it's still classified, then he has broken a law. He can declassify information, he cannot leak classified information. If it's not classified, FOIA laws seem to indicate that we should be able to see it. If hostile governments can have the information, then the American public certainly deserves it.