NBC: "Experts worry Trump can't be trusted with nation's secrets after leaving office"

[Pluvious]

Ahhhh... YOU THINK ?!!!

We better be wise the fuck up already.

SMFH

They argue soon-to-be-former President Trump already poses a danger because of the secrets he currently possesses, and they say it would be foolish to trust him with more sensitive information. With Trump's real estate empire under financial pressure and his brand suffering, they worry he will see American secrets
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"This is not something that one could have ever imagined with other presidents, but it's easy to imagine with this one," said Jack Goldsmith, who worked as a senior Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration.

"He's shown as president that he doesn't take secret-keeping terribly seriously," Goldsmith said in an interview. "He has a known tendency to disrespect rules related to national security. And he has a known tendency to like to sell things that are valuable to him."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/when-he-leaves-office-can-ex-president-trump-be-trusted-n1248994

[RKP5637]

1. Ha, he'll sell it off if he can make a buck! ... or blackmail the US in some high stakes game. n/t

[sprinkleeninow]

2. No kidding Sherlocks?? eom

[tman]

3. How cute. I remember thinking this in 2016.

His wife and kids probably know more than you can imagine.

[exboyfil]

4. I am more worried about a fire sale before he leaves office

What will he retain in his head after he leaves office? Any paper or access to a server would immediately be illegal and subject him to criminal prosecution (just after he got his shiny pardon which will almost certainly happen).

He is bad but is he really that bad? He has to know giving up spies would have significant blowback.

I could imagine a scenario right now though were he is accessing the most damaging information and declassifying it and sharing it with his best buds. Anything he does now could be covered under his Jan. 19th pardon.

[Yoyoyo77]

23. If all or most of the 400 million is owed to Russian sources would he hold anything back?

[TomDaisy]

5. well duh!

[Cha]

6. Lock him the Fuck UP & take Away

all forms of Communication.

[Delarage]

11. This

He needs to be in jail for all his Russian money-laundering via Deutsche Bank, tax evasion, and general traitorism. How about all those secret Russian meetings that we only learned about from Russian media? I'm sure all kinds of shady dealings were happening right there in the oval office---with no written records.

I can't believe his minions chant USA, USA at his rallies when he is selling us out.

[Cha]

14. I know.. 'cause they're Brainwashed

stupid.. also even if they were aware enough to realize trump is selling America Out.. would they even care?

My guess is No.. their cult leader can do no wrong

[C_U_L8R]

7. He should never had security clearance to begin with

The guy is a walking risk. So unfit and untrustworthy.

[mshasta]

8. He needs money that's is the most dangerous thing

Desperate wounded animal, will do anything ...

[MiniMe]

9. He doesn't bother with the security briefs now

He won't take the time when he is out of office.

[Cirque du So-What]

10. He'd absolutely fall for a sting operation

I support cooperation between the intelligence community and justice department to draw out rump or his demon spawn. Let’s add espionage to their list of ‘accomplishments’.

[SunSeeker]

18. Yup. And once he's out of office, no pardons! nt

[jmowreader]

12. There's about three words too many in that sentence.

We couldn't trust him with our nation's secrets in 2017, and his creditors weren't ready to auction off his gold-plated toilet then.

[GopherGal]

16. Yes, that was my thought, too.

What would change now? Why would he suddenly become trustworthy after he leaves office?

[Boogiemack]

13. Experts are right! nt

[handmade34]

15. he could not pass

a security check to be a regular gov't employee... he should never have been able to play president... our system has serious shortcomings

[GopherGal]

17. Hell, he wouldn't pass a security check to empty the Oval Office trash cans...

much less be a regular government employee.

[SlogginThroughIt]

19. Like we didn't tell them and the country that day one!!!!

She said he was putin's puppet and she was right and they didn't want to listen. They knew that he was probably a risk of being turned by Russia and other foreign entities and all we heard about was a laptop owned by anthony weiner. Fuck these people. I am sick and tired of hearing about shit that we knew 4 years ago and told you was a risk then. Put the fucker in jail. You have every damned reason to do it.

[Polybius]

20. Hopefully he'll only speak out on UFO's

If he's even looked into it yet.

[Flaleftist]

21. Can Biden revoke his security clearance?

Or if not, perhaps the people making the reports for past presidents can leave things out. How will he know and what could he do about it?

[judesedit]

22. Hopefully, he was never given access to the most important information

because he can't be trusted. There are something like 8 more top secret levels above the Presidency and are on need to know basis only. So, let's pray they've only been giving him information they actually want divulged. But not letting him know that. He's a useful tool in some capacity.

[patricia92243]

24. I think his failing mind will take care of that. He can't remember

secrets. Now what he has shared with his kids, etc is another thing.

[Tom Rivers]

25. I NEVER understood why he was EVER allowed classified info to begin with

Yes, he's POTUS and under normal circumstances, regardless of whether or not I agree with their politics, I can understand it. I never had a President I thought would sell us out to benefit himself (I was born after the Nixon years). Even Dumbya I thought at least loved the country despite being one of the dimmer bulbs in the lot and being on a destructive revenge tour for daddy.

Trump's bizarre love of Putin and dictators, as well as his debts to foreign countries and banks, should've been a deal breaker from Day 1. I just really can't help but feel like our national security and intelligence community blew it big time by allowing him to ever get his foot in the door. Add on top of that the absurd "executive immunity" theory Mueller, Barr, and others have pushed and it's made this a super dangerous time. NO WAY he would be fighting this hard to hold on, nor would state legislatures would be entertaining his dream of a coup, if the office wasn't protecting him from investigation and prosecution. He hates the job, it's only a grifting and protection racket for him, and I suppose on some level plays to his narcissism when he appears before his audience of unwashed supporters who think he's "fighting for the forgotten man" and kiss his ass.

[octoberlib]

26. He'll monetize them like he does with everything else.

[sakabatou]

27. No shit

[ProfessorGAC]

28. After He Leaves Office?

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I doubt it. Those buffoons won't remember details to make the secrets meaningful.
The bigger concern is the next 53 days.

[GoCubsGo]

29. They'll be long gone before he leaves office.

Do they not understand that this is why he has been firing national security personnel, and replacing them with toadies? They're not just shredding evidence. They're sorting out whatever they can sell to make a buck. I really hope that the Secret Service has been bugging the shit out of Merde de Lardo and his other properties.

[tanyev]

30. I doubt that anything currently retained in his brain is much of a secret.

But it would be a mistake to give him detailed information after he leaves office. He wouldn't bother reading it, but he'd hand it off to Jared or someone who could figure out a way to monetize it.

Maybe they could keep producing his special TRUMP-centric briefing. Drone photos of him playing golf and getting a hole in one on every single hole. Reports of dictators around the world contemplating suicide because they miss their good friend Donald so very, very much.