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Trump's jealousy toward top US general caused him to play fast and loose with classified docs: reporter
June 09, 2023
Donald Trump's post-presidency recklessness with classified information was driven by his jealousy toward Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, according to new reporting.
The former president was indicted on federal charges related to the documents that he took home from the White House Thursday. CBS News correspondent Robert Costa dropped new revelations about what motivated Trump to abscond with the classified materials and casually discuss them with others, as heard in a recording.
\u201c(Thread) learning some new things this morning about WHY this all happened and the motivation, especially for the audio from 2021 discussing classified material. In short, it comes down to one person: *Milley.* Trump loathed his coverage in press, in books, per multiple sources\u2026\u201d— Robert Costa (@Robert Costa) 1686326061
"In short, it comes down to one person: Milley," Costa tweeted. "Trump loathed his coverage in press, in books, per multiple sources. As Trump fumed in post-presidency period about Milley, in his view, being cast as a hero and himself as an insurrectionist, he began to talk regularly about Milley in 2021, dismissing him and bringing up stories that made Milley seem unintelligent and untrustworthy, per sources."
The ex-president's efforts to discredit the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff caused him to act in a way that alarmed some of his aides.
"Trump’s anger about Milley led him to be cavalier about what he said about Milley and their interactions & policy decisions, and it frustrates some aides who notices how he would veer into dicey/near classified material in convos," Costa said. "Then Trump started to do interviews for books."
Costa said the former president did not speak to him or Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward for their book, Peril, but Trump spoke to others during that same period and frequently bashed Milley both in those conversations and in private discussions -- and aides took steps to protect themselves.
"These dynamics began to collide as Trump sat down with people, with him pulling out documents and memos from the WH to make his points," Costa tweeted. "And when people would come by to hear Trump go on and on about his presidency, and often rant about Milley, Trump's aides would also be recording the conversations, in case they ever wanted to contest what was later written. That included when Meadows's ghostwriters stopped by."
Recordings made by two writers working on the former White House chief of staff's memoir captured evidence of Trump discussing top-secret military planning documents to push back on a contemporaneous report on Milley's concern the then-president would issue illegal orders.
"The audio, recorded by a Trump aide, includes remarks Trump made to two ghostwriters for his last chief of staff, Mark Meadows," Costa added. "Sometimes aides & visitors weren't even sure if what Trump was talking about on national security or military matters was true or if docs Trump mentioned existed, sources recalled. But Trump seemed to talk a lot about Milley and his own view of what really happened on that front."
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George Santos claims his family members were the ones who bailed him out of federal custody
June 09, 2023
George Santos (R-NY) on Friday appealed a judge's order to release the names of the people who helped bail him out of federal custody, saying the people who put up the money were family members, The New York Times reported.
The House Ethics Committee last month asked Santos to disclose the names to see if the $500,000 bail guarantee violated House ethics rules regarding gifts. Santos’ lawyer argued ethics rules provide an exception for family members and that releasing the names would subject them to threats and harassment.
“Defendant has essentially publicly revealed that the suretors are family members and not lobbyists, donors or others seeking to exert influence over the defendant," Santos' lawyer Joseph Murray argued.
Santos is facing 13 felony counts including money laundering and wire fraud and has pleaded not guilty.
Read the full report over at The New York Times.
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'Quit pretending': One-time Republican tells GOP to stop hiding how they feel about Trump
June 09, 2023
Many elected Republicans reacted with outrage to special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of former President Donald Trump -- but one-time Republican insider David Frum believes it's all for show.
Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, writes in The Atlantic that many Republicans secretly want the former president completely out of the national picture but are too afraid to say so due to wrath from their voters.
Frum now thinks it's time for Republicans to "quit pretending" to feel deep loyalty to Trump.
In his column, Frum outlines the dangers of trying to appease the MAGA base instead of simply leveling with them that the former president is a criminal who deserves to be held accountable under the rule of law.
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"These plans depend on the non-Trump political actors performing just convincingly enough that their audience is deceived, but not so convincingly that their audience is mobilized to actually do something inconvenient about it," he writes. "That undesirable something might be some kind of mass protest or even violence. Or possibly it would take the form of conservative voters losing faith in the system and withdrawing from voting and political participation altogether."
Frum goes on to explain how American conservatives put themselves in this position in the first place by wrapping their arms around a man who has shown time and again to lack basic ethics and moral character.
"The conservative world in the age of Trump has coiled itself into a labyrinth of lies: lies about Trump’s victimhood, lies about Trump’s popularity, lies about Trump’s election outcomes, lies about Trump’s mental acuity and physical strength," he writes. "The architects of the labyrinth presumed that they could always, if necessary, find an exit—and that their keys could someday turn the exit’s locks. Instead, they have found themselves as lost and trapped in the labyrinth as the deceived people they lured into it."
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