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UTUSN

(70,686 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 03:38 PM Jun 2016

DRUMPF eavesdropped on Mar-A-Lago phones. What will be the straw of sleaze to break the camel's back

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[font size=5]Report: Donald Trump Rigged Phones at Florida Estate To Eavesdrop On Guests[/font]

According to BuzzFeed’s sources, Trump kept what was essentially a switchboard in his bedroom that allowed him to tap into phone calls made by any of the hundred or so people staying at Mar-A-Lago:

.... Four of them — speaking on condition of anonymity because they signed nondisclosure agreements — said that Trump listened in on phone calls at the club during the mid-2000s. They did not know if he eavesdropped more recently.

They said he listened in on calls between club employees or, in some cases, between staff and guests. None of them knew of Trump eavesdropping on guests or members talking on private calls with people who were not employees of Mar-a-Lago. They also said that Trump could eavesdrop only on calls made on the club’s landlines and not on calls made from guests’ cell phones.


The existence of the switchboard was confirmed even by BuzzFeed sources who maintain that Trump did not use it for nefarious purposes, but I’m having a hard time thinking of someone who I would trust less with the power to choose to eavesdrop on his guests than Donald Trump. ....


http://gawker.com/why-in-the-world-might-donald-trump-assume-people-are-l-1782891775
[font size=5]Why in the World Might Donald Trump Assume People Are Listening in on His Calls?[/font]

At least twice, Donald Trump has publicly insisted that he assumes a third party is listening in each and every time he picks up the phone. Also, multiple employees claim that Trump used to listen in on the calls of his staff and guests at his Mar-A-Lago resort. Might the steak man’s paranoia and his alleged eavesdropping somehow, perhaps, be related? ....

Assume everybody’s listening to you. I always do. Every time I pick up a phone, I assume people are listening, you know. You sue their ass off if they are. If you can find them, you drop a little lawsuit on them, and you make them pay, big league.
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...a quote from Hermann Hesse... : “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”

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DRUMPF eavesdropped on Mar-A-Lago phones. What will be the straw of sleaze to break the camel's back (Original Post) UTUSN Jun 2016 OP
Nothing ever will break the camel's back. madaboutharry Jun 2016 #1
Cameras in all his hotel rooms? Warpy Jun 2016 #2
A bit like Gumby Theatre... wcmagumba Jun 2016 #3
Trump could have hidden cameras in toilets Lance Bass esquire Jun 2016 #4
Hmm. Might be illegal. Certainly is unethical. yellowcanine Jun 2016 #5
Definitely illegal csziggy Jun 2016 #6
Man I picked the wrong week to not do a Top 10. Initech Jun 2016 #7

Warpy

(111,254 posts)
2. Cameras in all his hotel rooms?
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 03:47 PM
Jun 2016

Nah, that would only affect rich people. Nobody cares about rich people being filmed in their underwear.

I'm beginning to agree with that fascist that shooting people in Times Square would increase his popularity among angry morons. He seems to know his fan base really well.

wcmagumba

(2,886 posts)
3. A bit like Gumby Theatre...
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 04:17 PM
Jun 2016

Gumby Theatre / Book at Bedtime

From 'Another Monty Python Record'. Also featured on the albums 'Instant Record Collection (UK version) and 'Monty Python's The Final Ripoff'.


The sketch:
(Sound of telephone ringing - the phone is answered and we here Michael say

Michael Palin : Hello I am just listening to this record with my wife and our au-pair and I’d like to say how shocked we are that a pleasant collection of Norwegian folk songs should be turned into an excuse for communist propaganda of the shoddiest kind. What’s gone wrong with the world. I can’t even take a bath without 6 or 7 communists jumping in with me. They’re in my shirt cupboard and Breshnev and Kosegan are in the kitchen now eating my wife’s jam. Oh they are cutting off my legs. I can see them peeping out of my wife’s blouse. Why doesn’t Mr Maulding do something about it before it is to late. Ohhhh….God…

 

Lance Bass esquire

(671 posts)
4. Trump could have hidden cameras in toilets
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 04:20 PM
Jun 2016

And his minions would cheer him on.

Would say he knows his sh%t

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
5. Hmm. Might be illegal. Certainly is unethical.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 04:25 PM
Jun 2016

Not that the Donald would care about either possibility.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
6. Definitely illegal
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 04:48 PM
Jun 2016
Florida Wiretapping Law

Florida's wiretapping law is a "two-party consent" law. Florida makes it a crime to intercept or record a "wire, oral, or electronic communication" in Florida, unless all parties to the communication consent. See Fla. Stat. ch. 934.03. Florida law makes an exception for in-person communications when the parties do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the conversation, such as when they are engaged in conversation in a public place where they might reasonably be overheard. If you are operating in Florida, you may record these kinds of in-person conversations without breaking the law. However, you should always get the consent of all parties before recording any telephone conversation and any in-person that common sense tells you is private.

In addition to subjecting you to criminal prosecution, violating the Florida wiretapping law can expose you to a civil lawsuit for damages by an injured party.

http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/florida-recording-law

Initech

(100,068 posts)
7. Man I picked the wrong week to not do a Top 10.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 04:50 PM
Jun 2016

Lots of crazy shit going on, but now this from Trumpenfuror?

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