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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we maybe ease off on the "gave secrets to the Russians" drumbeat for a bit?
It comes off as a bit judgmental, to be frank.
Be honest: who among us hasn't handed highly classified information to a hostile foreign power in the literal center of the nation's presidency?
NOPE!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)and I inadvertently let slip a top secret Norwegian lutefisk recipe to the Swedish ambassador... So I understand how easy it is for that to happen. The Swedish ambassador was sort of large and menacing.
Orrex
(63,209 posts)You harmed the republic that day, my friend.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Let the Swedes eat that poison and leave us with all the nice, unadulterated lefsa.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)As a pastry chef with highest of culinary ethics, I will tell you, you never, NEVER give away secret ingredients! EVER!!
It's just unforgivable!!!! Deplorable!!!!
It just isn't done.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)Not really giving away secrets if you're trump and talking to the Russians...
JI7
(89,249 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Russians could use it as pripaganda, shortly after firing Comey are just shameful. Add the fact that he was coughing up classified/sensitive information to them and it sure as hell points tiwards treasonous behaviour. Shame on the GOP. They hVe no moral compass. Its all about the money.
Yavin4
(35,438 posts)colluding with that same foreign power to win an election.
NanceGreggs
(27,814 posts)But it was just that one time.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)If the Nobel committee won't do it he'll award it himself.
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Interesting trivia: you may have seen at least one of the four famous paintings by Jacques-Louis David which Napoleon commissioned to record his and Empress Josephine's coronation. In true Trumpian fashion, Napoleon stiffed David on the payment. It required the intervention of an administration official, the Comte Daru, before the gov't finally paid him, three years late.
Although David did a preliminary drawing showing Napoleon crowning himself (the Pope refused to do so), Napoleon insisted that scene be left out of the final paintings. Fake news ! Sad !
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Among other things burned by the Communards in 1871 was the Tuilleries palace, located between the Louvres and the Tuilleries gardens, now occupied by an empty strip on which, ironically enough, Emmanuel Macron gave a rousing speech on his night of his election victory last week:
hmmm...
eppur_se_muova
(36,262 posts)Those who don't learn from anything leave a trail of royal fuck-ups.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)had to feed my book report on Andrew Jackson to the snarling Russian wolfhound that belonged to my childhood bully KellyAnne.
They shoved me into a bush while I was walking to school at the DeVos Academy of Edukayshun.
But I wasn't President. I just played one in grade school.
JHan
(10,173 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)shipped to the Chinese Embassy in Mexico City. They still haven't figured out it's just random numbers, but what else are you going to do with twelve supercomputers for the next few years?
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)File this under shit u can't make up
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)kaotikross
(246 posts)We should steer to more serious breaches of ethics, like Hillary's E-Mails! Where's Weaselface Chaffetz? Is he gone yet? Somebody get that little toad in here to launch Clinton Email Investigation #47- this will be the ONE!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)For a few seconds there, I thought you'd lost your mind!
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)Don't DO THAT!
LibraLiz1973
(8,197 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)I can't say more than that, except that Federal Reserve Bank of New York may have been involved. Along with the International Society for the Evolution of Thumb Cats.
Warpy
(111,255 posts)simply belonged to the wrong damned political party. If they'd reregistered as Republicans, everything would have been peachy.
The very idea, suspecting a Republican of any wrongdoing!
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,978 posts)#withafewexceptions
ProfessorPlum
(11,257 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I'll forget Trump's treason like the reich wing forgot BENGAZI!!!1111 and EMAILS!!!1!!1 and JADE HELM!!111!!! and KENYAN MUSLIM!!!1!!!!!!!111!!!!and SCARY BLACK MAN COMING FOR YOUR GUNZ!!!!11!1111!11111!!!!!
The only difference is Trump's TREASON is REAL not the fever dreams of right wing nazi crackheads!