‘Impeachment N-O-W’: Internet targets Trump after he shared classified information with Russian officials
A bombshell report Monday from the Washington Post revealed Donald Trump divulged highly classified information last week during a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador.
In that closed-door Oval Office meeting, Trump reportedly bragged that he “gets great intel” before relating information obtained through an intelligence-sharing arrangement with a U.S. partner that officials say endangers an intelligence stream pertaining to the Islamic State.
“It is all kind of shocking,” said a former U.S. official told the Post. “Trump seems to be very reckless and doesn’t grasp the gravity of the things he’s dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security.”
Given the president’s well-documented disdain for people who share classified information, the Internet on Monday nailed Trump’s hypocrisy:
Next time somebody says revealing unconstitutional mass surveillance to the press crossed a line, show them this: https://t.co/Ofr0WRVuso
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) May 15, 2017
The fact that Trump hasn’t tweeted about aliens yet is pretty much rock-solid proof that they didn’t recover anything in Roswell
— PoliMath (@politicalmath) May 15, 2017
“It’s all kind of shocking.”
Except that pretty much every one of Trump’s opponents warned about exactly this. https://t.co/Bb96p04Ass pic.twitter.com/55Paxzcu3F
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) May 15, 2017
True or not, WaPo story reminds that much of what prez does is unchecked/behind closed doors.I have zero faith Trump will act appropriately.
— Philip Klein (@philipaklein) May 15, 2017
Ahem… https://t.co/Lp3llv9EaG
— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) May 15, 2017
This breaks the “what if Obama did it” meter.
— Philip Bump (@pbump) May 15, 2017
The number of texts/messages I’ve gotten from ex-Clinton staffers in the last 20 mins that include “but her emails” is…high.
— Gabriel Debenedetti (@gdebenedetti) May 15, 2017
It’s really going to be a challenge prosecuting people for leaks now, Mr. Trump.
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 15, 2017
@justinsink Is there tape?
— Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNPR) May 15, 2017
John McCain probably revealed less to the KGB in 5+ years of torture at the Hanoi Hilton than Trump did in 5 minutes in the Oval. https://t.co/mlq6ndE9FE
— David Kochel (@ddkochel) May 15, 2017
The Russians can’t hack our secrets if we just tell them our secrets pic.twitter.com/jSgGN1KQ0S
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) May 15, 2017
Washington Post is protecting classified information that the president is too addled and dumb to keep secret. https://t.co/FM3mnPAOEM
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) May 15, 2017
🚨@Reince @IvankaTrump @seanspicer Trump giving classified intel to Russians just broke record set by “Grab ’em by the pussy” scoop.🚨 https://t.co/ISWyZtFUhG
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) May 15, 2017
Is
it dumber to reveal classified information to Russian officials or to think that exercise doesn’t work?— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody) May 15, 2017
If Hillary Clinton leaked classified info to a Russian spook/diplomat, Republicans would rightly be drafting Articles of Impeachment N-O-W.
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) May 15, 2017
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Trump has shrunk the White House entirely around himself: ‘It is a government of one’
President Donald Trump has cleared out all the constraints in his White House, which he's running much like the Trump Organization.
The president has chased away four national security advisers, three chiefs of staff, three directors of oval office operations and five communications directors -- an unprecedented amount of turnover for a modern president — and finds himself surrounded by compliant staffers and aides, reported Politico.
“It is a government of one in the same way in which the Trump Organization was a company of one,” said one former senior administration official.
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Whistleblower forced to come forward because intel officials consider Trump a ‘security risk’: CNN’s Avlon
Addressing a bombshell report from the Washington Post that President Donald Trump made a "promise" to an unidentified world leader that "prompted an official in the U.S. intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint with the inspector general for the intelligence community," CNN's John Avlon said it was a sign intel officials regard the president as a "security risk."
Speaking with hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota, Avlon noted that the whistleblower is a Trump appointee which makes formal complaint all that much more alarming.
"A Trump appointee thinks this is of such concern that Congress needs to know," Berman began. "The question is: what was the promise, to whom, and what does it say about the president's notion of intelligence?"
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How the tyrant in the White House just took our government to a new depth of depravity
To me, it feels ice-tinglingly creepy that the U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu in Washington wants to bring criminal charges against former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe.
The charge, basically that McCabe lied about a leak to a reporter, seems to come nowhere near close to supporting a criminal charge after 18 months of investigation, an expired grand jury and public humiliation for McCabe in firing him two days short of his professional resignation, killing off his pension. It seems that even a grand jury has decided not to react to the prosecution’s call for indictment.
But that’s not what’s wrong here. It is the White House squeezing the Justice Department to do its political bidding.
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