BREAKING: The White House has no fucking clue who the president calls on unsecure cell phones.

[kpete]

Jim Acosta
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WH official says aides were caught off guard by Bill Taylor's testimony that an aide heard Trump talk about "investigations" with EU Amb Gordon Sondland.

“The overheard phone call was new to every one," the official said.

Link to tweet

[in2herbs]

1. Why isn't one of our national security agencies monitoring his unsecured phone calls?

If they are they need to release the tapes.

[NightWatcher]

7. They are. Everyone can hear these unsecured calls...UNLESS

he received a secured sat phone from Putin, Kim, Rudy.....

If that were the case, the only people he's safe from are our own intel agencies

[Ilsa]

19. That's damn scary. nt

[NightWatcher]

21. Sorry, I used to work in the IC and I've been terrified since day one with this guy.

I'd bet vital parts of my anatomy that there are sigint (signals intelligence) teams that follow his movements around the world, just to eavesdrop with things like stingray cell scammers and such.

We know there's been Chinese officials all over Maralago and Bedminster in Jersey.

[mitch96]

35. "national security agencies monitoring phone calls?"

Being a documented security risk I bet the NSA/FBI and the CIA are monitoring the calls..
Prolly not the pres but EVERYBODY HE CALLS...... so they can say they don't monitor HIM!!
HA!
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[Ms. Toad]

2. But her emails . . . n/t

[Heartstrings]

47. My first thought......nt

[Turbineguy]

3. That way trump doesn't have to remember

what the conversation was about.

[nature-lover]

4. Was Sondland's phone secure?

[htuttle]

5. No, it seems that neither phone was secure

[nature-lover]

8. Someone should be listening and making recordings. Hopefully, it's us.

[EarthFirst]

6. I wonder how many "burners" he's been through...

Although on second thought; he’s probably too fu*king stupid to understand the concept...

[NightWatcher]

22. I wonder how many phones our enemies have given him to use.

[wnylib]

54. !

[dweller]

36. how many did Cohen have?

🤔

✌🏼

[druidity33]

46. Manafort had five i think. K&R, nt.

[3catwoman3]

9. The White House has no fucking clue.

The sentence could stop right there.

[mucifer]

10. not news. We've known about this for a long time

[tblue37]

11. But her emails! nt

[gibraltar72]

12. Russia knows though.

[Captain Zero]

37. Yeah. Guess we could ask them

Who he is calling. They probably have all of them logged, and most of them recorded. Kompromat.

[Garrett78]

13. As soon as we learned way back when that Trump had given his cell # to foreign leaders...

...a responsible and honest media would have made a bigger deal out of that than the former SoS's emails.

[backtoblue]

14. Damn those spying witches!

And the wizards magically listening in. Witch hunt!

[cab67]

15. Wouldn't security clearance normally be revoked for something like this?

[2naSalit]

16. Normally...nt

[okieinpain]

17. dems should ask for all of trumps secrect phones. n/t.

[pandr32]

18. That's because "the donald" does as he pleases

His kind has no business working for the American people, and the truth is he doesn't and never has.

[LastDemocratInSC]

20. Using a conventional cellphone in those situations requires a special kind of stupid.

[yaesu]

23. the House needs to open up an "her emails" type of investigation into this, maybe tie it into

the impeachment

[barbtries]

24. my theory is it's no accident.

that's how putin keeps tabs on his boy.

[underpants]

34. Yep. My thoughts exactly

[Captain Zero]

58. That's right. Putin probably supplies them

Convenient. Useful idiot.

[Cartaphelius]

25. Isn't this revelation

in and if itself, an Impeachable Offence?

Article #Ad Nauseum

[James48]

26. He is

A threat to national security.

[RobinA]

28. Maybe, Maybe Not

They probably don't tell him anything really important.

[SCVDem]

27. He has literraly broken

every rule in the book!

How do you prosecute that?

[meadowlander]

29. If he was talking campaign business though, he shouldn't have been using government property.

I'm not sure we can add this as a charge if our position is that he was conducting personal business in the first place. If he was doing that, he shouldn't have been using a secured phone line.

The actual impeachable offense is using the US Ambassador to the Ukraine in his official capacity to conduct personal business via other State Department officials. Doing it in the way that makes it most likely you will be caught (or overheard and blackmailed by the Russians) is kind of your own business I think.

[lastlib]

30. They have no clue who he talks to on an unsecure cellphone?

That's okay, they can just ask Vladimir. He's got it all.

[asiliveandbreathe]

31. Advanced spy gadgets..who knows what pooties gadget of choice is..

Pick one, henny spy gadget....

[soldierant]

49. These people

designing these things all need to get day jobs developing video games. Training cats? To sit next to someone during phone calls? Really?

[DFW]

32. And yet, Hillary's email, of course............n/t

[napi21]

33. That's exactly the question I asked lasst night when I cheard about the "restaurant call". Does he

even HAVE a secure phone? I get the feeling he NEVER uses any of the secure phones. I think I recall hearing once when he was first in office that he doesn't like the phones they want him to use.

It's astonishing how we all just ignore all thee rules he breaks. This AM I heard a guest on a radio talk show state that we shouldn't assume things will go back to normal when he leaves office. The mess we're in now wasn't caused by DT. It's been 30+ years in the making! Sorry, I don't recall the name of the guest. but he scRED THE HECK OUT OF ME.

[wnylib]

55. Of course he has a secure phone. It's just not

a US secure phone.

[kimbutgar]

38. He probably has daily chats with Putin who dictate his policies for mf45 to follow

[Mr.Bill]

40. The flaw in that theory

is that Putin wouldn't be stupid enough to talk to anyone using an unsecure phone.

[SergeStorms]

39. I'm sure the NSA has recordings of them, though.

But try to get anything from the NSA. It's almost as difficult as getting Trump to hand over his income tax returns.

[bdamomma]

41. Scary stuff

so he must have more than one phone you think or can't they confiscate his phone to get numbers of those who were/are calling him. Just asking.

Putin must call him everyday.

[bluecollar2]

42. I remember when the republikkklans

Went apeshit over President Obama's Blackberry...

Today....meh

[Hekate]

43. This is the same man who treated the Japanese PM & all his Mar a Lago members to ...

...super-secret national security briefings by the light of the guests' cell phone flashlights -- and cameras.

Why would anyone ever imagine he would change?

[eppur_se_muova]

44. Not the first time by a long shot. They have no business acting surprised. nt

[Grasswire2]

45. and Erdogan was allowed to take his iPad into the Oval Office..

...ostensibly to show some senators a video.

[Blue Owl]

48. Dumbass Donny is a major security threat...

Lock him up for the security of the USA!

[Corgigal]

50. Also why the WH worker bees,

need to quit. You have no idea what he’s throwing you in the middle of. Then when it’s discovered, he won’t know you. No way to gamble with your liberty.

[Skittles]

51. we all know it's Putin

[Baked Potato]

52. In Trump's mind normal cell phones are more secure

Just like his Big Macs are better than White House food.

[ffr]

53. People are catching on. This is a big EFFing deal!

The CiC of the United States is doing this and nobody knows what he discusses, at least within our own government.

LOCK THIS SOMBITCH UP!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

56. When a president conducts official government business on any phone....

or in a meeting or on paper, it's supposed to be documented by official means. It would seem that tRump's sloppy security and poor documentation practices may even warrant an impeachable offense charge against him.

We can rest assured our deep state intelligence is monitoring his calls unless he has taken measures to prevent them from doing that work. And, those agents listening may not have the means or authority to report things that they suspect are illegal or break the rules of government.

That is, unless they want to risk being a whistleblower.......

[Mc Mike]

57. Admiral Rump is drilling holes in the bottom of the SS tRumptanic's hull, again.

Gen. Kelly was trying to get that phone of him, to no avail. Counterintel told twitler foreign intel was using stingray tech in DC.

[aaaaaa5a]

59. But what about her emails! NT

[NewJeffCT]

60. Marcy Wheeler (Emptywheel) is a great follow on Twitter

really smart and tweets frequently. Has a law degree from a top university and was interviewed by the FBI in relation to Trump/Russia early on in the process.

[saidsimplesimon]

61. Trump is dangerous, if

not traitorous, he must be removed from office in order to save our Republic.