Former President Donald Trump was ridiculed Saturday for his apparent inability to keep his mouth shut.
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri mocked the four-times indicted Trump, claiming he found it impossible not to keep blurting out national secrets.
Her column followed reports that he discussed nuclear secrets with a billionaire foreign national who was a member of his Mar-a-Lago club. He’s also facing charges in Florida involving his retention of top-secret documents at the property.
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“Donald Trump has two modes of conversation,” wrote Petri.
“He is either ranting about all the things he intends to do when he becomes dictator of the country — so many rights to strip away! so much vengeance to extract against his enemies! so many guardrails to dismantle! — or he is volunteering classified information.
“Those are really it. If you don’t want one, you have to buckle in for the other.”
Continuing to mock Trump, Petri said anybody in Trump’s orbit should expect to be showered with the nation’s most classified information.
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“All you have to do is pay money to be around Donald Trump by, say, attending a fundraiser or joining Mar-a-Lago. …See how long you can go without having Donald Trump just hand you some classified information.”
The challenge, she said, was spending time with Trump and not coming away with state secrets.
“The only objective is that you spend 24 hours around Donald Trump without learning any classified information,” she joked.
