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mcar

(42,278 posts)
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:01 PM Feb 2017

Pierce: Does This Photo Make You Feel Secure?

President* Trump puts Hillary Clinton and her private server to shame.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53101/trump-north-korea-mar-a-lago/

Behold, the national security apparatus of the Trump Administration confronts the sudden crisis of the North Korean missile test:


This is just the most amazing picture ever. The classified information on the screen of an open cellphone. The aides using the flashlights of their own phones to help the president*—and the waitstaff—read the classified material. Shinzo Abe sitting there and wondering what he's gotten himself into.

Every editor who assigned a story about Hillary Rodham Clinton's secret server and the e-mails should immediately consider moving to a monastery on a mountainside in Albania and engage in ritual purification of the body until they get further instructions.

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bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
2. Wish hat third pic was clearer... Donald staring off in space with a grin thinking how great this is
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:06 PM
Feb 2017

And how he should have charges those guests even more. How much you want to bet he's charging the FOB extra for a hello from the president? Soon he will be selling selfies.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. And who was concerned about classified information that was allegedly stored on a secured
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:08 PM
Feb 2017

private email server. republiCONs are such horrendous hypocrites.

Tanuki

(14,914 posts)
4. Pierce mentions the waitstaff, which reminds me that Trump hired hundreds of foreign nationals
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:10 PM
Feb 2017

to work at Mar-A-Lago. I doubt that whatever vetting they underwent for these low salary, seasonal positions included the kind of security clearance this proximity to top secret information should require.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/18/news/economy/trump-maralago/

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