Trump is the reckless, stupid Traitor-in-Chief: LOCK HIM UP!

[BoyNextDoor]

Trump leaked classified information directly to the Russians, in the oval Office, in front of TASS.

Any of you dopes going to defend him now?

 

[Ms_Ann]

It's practically Clintonian in magnitude.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Paragraph 7 of the Wapo story:

For almost anyone in government, discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.

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

https://media.tenor.co/images/b895792e08ea5d3aa3cf1cd9e2cb1623/tenor.gif

 

[Wrong Element]

Paragraph 7 of the Wapo story:



https://media.tenor.co/images/b895792e08ea5d3aa3cf1cd9e2cb1623/tenor.gif

Stipulated. But "breaking the law" isn't really what this is about, the "lock him up" in the title notwithstanding.


And congrats to Bert for putting "But Hillaryz emailz!" into the very first response.

 

[sr71plt]

Actually, there are rechecks and due process to go through before even the president can put classified material into unclassified use, but the more important point here is that at some point surely you're going to start feeling stupid for coming up with excuses for this buffoon, CH.

 

[Wrong Element]

The problem is that a president can do pretty much anything he wants. The only real constraints on him are

1) his own sense of duty and morality, not applicable in Trump's case; and

2) the threat of impeachment, not applicable until January 2019 at the earliest.


Maybe the miracle is that it took us 228 years to end up with someone like this in the White House. Shit, there were only three emperors between Julius Caesar and Caligula.

 

[Ms_Ann]

Stipulated. But "breaking the law" isn't really what this is about, the "lock him up" in the title notwithstanding.


And congrats to Bert for putting "But Hillaryz emailz!" into the very first response.

Thanks Rob but I was actually thinking more about the missile tech going to China and then to N. Korea.

 

[CiipherX]

Trump leaked classified information directly to the Russians, in the oval Office, in front of TASS.

Any of you dopes going to defend him now?

The Trump supporters don't care. He could go out into the middle of time square and kill someone, his supporters will still support him.

 

[Ms_Ann]

The [insert president name here] supporters don't care. He could go out into the middle of time square and kill someone, his supporters will still support him.

Ifyp.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Actually, there are rechecks and due process to go through before even the president can put classified material into unclassified use, but the more important point here is that at some point surely you're going to start feeling stupid for coming up with excuses for this buffoon, CH.

I'm not trying to come up with "excuses" for anybody. I'm just quoting the Washington Post on their interpretation of the law, which, for once I have not meticulously researched.

If, in fact, you would like to cite the law to which you referred that binds the President to a specific PROCESS of declassification, I would gladly defer to it.

 

[OldJourno]

I don't believe the story.

 

[Hard_Rom]

I don't believe the story.

LOL

 

[Phelia]

Everyone should just agree to pour a ton of money into a really thorough investigation, turbo-charge it, share the results, and get this shit over with. Get the special prosecutor. This is ridiculous. It is toxic toxic toxic. It is weakening the country, which is exactly what our enemies, whomever they may be, want.

 

[sr71plt]

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If, in fact, you would like to cite the law to which you referred that binds the President to a specific PROCESS of declassification, I would gladly defer to it.

Um, no, I'm not going to waste my time looking up intell community processes for a political know-it-all acting like a guru on a porn discussion board. Believe what you want. There's a process for declassifying classified material--even for a president. It doesn't really matter what you choose to think about that.

 

[Phelia]

This was a good read. Found it in a Glenn Greenwald tweet.

The closing point:

It therefore seems like a grave error to talk as though the two possible outcomes are that the FBI’s investigation—or that of a special counsel, if that’s the direction this ends up going—either finds clear evidence of knowing collusion or turns up nothing much worth talking about. The more we focus obsessively on that first unlikely alternative, the easier it becomes to sweep any other significant findings under the rug once the investigation concludes, by limiting public disclosure of those findings to a terse answer to the binary question of collusion. Probably James Comey would have been difficult to bully into complicity in such a whitewash, but he’s gone now, and the more the public is convinced that’s the only question worth answering, the easier his successor will find it to play ball.

 

[magicalmoments]

Lock him up!

 

[SyKoKo]

Trump leaked classified information directly to the Russians, in the oval Office, in front of TASS.

Any of you dopes going to defend him now?

how can you POST this and NOT post that the SOS and Gen HR btoth said they were in the room and the story is FALSE?

HOW CAN YOU OMIT THAT, BUM NEXT DOOR?

 

[SyKoKo]

‘It didn’t happen’: H.R. McMaster calls WaPo’s Trump report ‘false’ http://trib.al/XhzXMKq


How can anyone post the Oh Pee and not this?

 

[SyKoKo]

and even a KNOWN TERRORIST and Anti American from NBC says this

Richard Engel ✔@RichardEngel
Us intel official tells me trump told russians about laptop airline threat. Told it wasnt anything they didnt already know. @washingtonpost


Cause NON of us read this story about laptops for weeks

 

[SyKoKo]

WaPo bombshell on Trump sharing classified intel bad for America, good for clicks, newsroom morale

But its FAKE NEWS

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I get so confused. I tgought Trump was gonna be impeached for firing Comey, or maybe for firing Sean Spicer. Kellyann hates Trumpd guts yuh know. Obamacare will nevere be repealed. And no way can Trump win the GOP nomination.

 

[magicalmoments]

The problem is that a president can do pretty much anything he wants. The only real constraints on him are

1) his own sense of duty and morality, not applicable in Trump's case; and

2) the threat of impeachment, not applicable until January 2019 at the earliest.


Maybe the miracle is that it took us 228 years to end up with someone like this in the White House. Shit, there were only three emperors between Julius Caesar and Caligula.

So... Does Trump own a horse? Can we expect him to take a seat in the Senate sometime soon?

 

[about_average]

Paragraph 7 of the Wapo story:

For almost anyone in government, discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...b69_story.html

While likely technically true, at least in some regard, which is the most likely scenario?

- Trump consciously decided to declassify code-word intelligence that we haven't even been sharing with our allies, intelligence from someone within ISIS, and share it with the Russians, with no consultation with the intelligence community
- Trump was bragging again

Individuals who are "extremely careless" with classified information should be denied further access to such info. - Paul Ryan, July 2016

 

[magicalmoments]

WaPo bombshell on Trump sharing classified intel bad for America, good for clicks, newsroom morale

But its FAKE NEWS

Fake news!

 

[water505]

Stipulated. But "breaking the law" isn't really what this is about, the "lock him up" in the title notwithstanding.

Another strong candidate for the Oreo/Spidey/Phrodough Doublespeak and Convoluted Logic Award.

May the best man win.