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brooklynite

(94,259 posts)
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 10:59 AM Jun 2016

Sources: Donald Trump Listened In On Phone Lines At Mar-A-Lago

Source: BuzzFeed

At Mar-a-Lago, the Palm Beach resort he runs as a club for paying guests and celebrities, Donald Trump had a telephone console installed in his bedroom that acted like a switchboard, connecting to every phone extension on the estate, according to six former workers. Several of them said he used that console to eavesdrop on calls involving staff.

Trump’s spokeswoman Hope Hicks responded to written questions with one sentence: “This is totally and completely untrue.”

...snip...

BuzzFeed News spoke with six former employees familiar with the phone system at the estate.
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.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/sources-donald-trump-listened-in-on-phone-lines-at-mar-a-lag?utm_term=.yt83696ew#.nlO2lqlmj

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Sources: Donald Trump Listened In On Phone Lines At Mar-A-Lago (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2016 OP
Probably a requirement for American business. AllyCat Jun 2016 #1
What a creeper. fleabiscuit Jun 2016 #2
Surely such an operation can't be hidden with no trace bucolic_frolic Jun 2016 #3
Walker probably helped him build it. AllyCat Jun 2016 #7
Lets listen to those Golden Years 1968-1973 of this twits idol shall we -- turbinetree Jun 2016 #4
Sounds like something sneaky D would do voteearlyvoteoften Jun 2016 #5
When is this asshole going to be charged with something? world wide wally Jun 2016 #6
See? He really is Republican nominee material! Blue_Adept Jun 2016 #8
Looking for stock tips? itsrobert Jun 2016 #9
Hoping to catch an employee doing something so he can say.... hamsterjill Jun 2016 #10
trump is a sick twisted individual MariaThinks Jun 2016 #11
He probably everyone is like him, not trustworthy so he monitors their calls. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #12
Who we gonna call ? Trey Gowdy !!! OnDoutside Jun 2016 #13
I cannot Wait to see the SuperPAC funded negative ads. onehandle Jun 2016 #14

AllyCat

(16,129 posts)
1. Probably a requirement for American business.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:03 AM
Jun 2016

They want Facebook account names and passwords, access to mobile devices and PCs that access their network to check emails and schedules, and put restrictions on employee activities outside of work. That Trump did this is no surprise. It is hardly new in American business.

turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
4. Lets listen to those Golden Years 1968-1973 of this twits idol shall we --
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:23 AM
Jun 2016

such fond memories of a sitting United States President, a republican that should have been indicted for treason during the Vietnam War making deals prior to an election in 1968, his paranoia, his lying, political corruption, money laundering for starters, his Kennedy infatuation of being a loser to them, and who should have gone to prison for a whole host of reasons--------------but I digress


https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/forresearchers/find/tapes/watergate/trial/transcripts.php




Honk----------------for a political revolution

world wide wally

(21,733 posts)
6. When is this asshole going to be charged with something?
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 11:47 AM
Jun 2016

Everything he does is either illegal or borderline legal.
He is a fucking menace

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
10. Hoping to catch an employee doing something so he can say....
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:28 PM
Jun 2016

"You're Fired!!!"

But, hey, it took a reality tv show for that, right??? LOL



P.S. Love the avatar!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
12. He probably everyone is like him, not trustworthy so he monitors their calls.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 12:52 PM
Jun 2016

I was on a phone call in which the information given on the phone call was revealed later, revealing information on private phone calls on phones which are not work phones is a crime.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
14. I cannot Wait to see the SuperPAC funded negative ads.
Thu Jun 30, 2016, 01:09 PM
Jun 2016

Somebody is going to have Big fun at his expense.

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