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Related: About this forumThe Countdown To Trump Blabbing U.S. Intelligence Secrets All Over the Place Has Begun
The Countdown To Trump Blabbing U.S. Intelligence Secrets All Over the Place Has BegunDonald Trump begins getting classified intelligence briefings tomorrow. God help us.
CHEZ PAZIENZA 20 HOURS AGO
Knowing this about him, knowing that he's pathological in his inability to control himself whenever the opportunity arises to show off -- which is, in Trump's syphilitic brain, every few minutes because there are always perceived threats to his ego -- granting him access to classified intelligence is a recipe for utter catastrophe.
Put simply, there's no way Trump will keep the information he's being given secret. He can't, precisely because it's secret, it's something he knows that most people don't, which makes that information invaluable in asserting his dominance.
It's impossible to imagine Trump not, at best, implying to his audience of rage-infected zombie yokels that we're in even worse trouble than they think because, well, "There are things I know, believe me!" or, at worst, blurting out classified information in an effort to either be a bad-ass or because Vladimir Putin stroked him under the chin just right.
http://thedailybanter.com/2016/08/trump-intel-briefings-begin-tomorrow/
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The Countdown To Trump Blabbing U.S. Intelligence Secrets All Over the Place Has Begun (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Aug 2016
OP
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)1. It would be interesting
if maybe they put some fake intel in with the briefings and see if it does leak out from Team Trump...
niyad
(113,323 posts)2. I was hoping the whole briefing was fake.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. Same here
Hekate
(90,708 posts)3. I've been hoping someone would do that. Or just feed him pablum intel.
TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)4. U.S. Intel have nothing. Typical bureaucratic lightweights!
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July
(4,750 posts)12. "I am not a crook"? nt
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)6. He's so weird that he'll ask about Area 51.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)7. I'm sure someone has an office pool going
Leith
(7,809 posts)8. Put Me Down for 9:00 pm
tomorrow evening.
Hekate
(90,708 posts)9. Hmmm. I'll bet 8 pm West Coast time, because in his time zone he should be pacing his palace...
...in his pajamas and tweeting. So that's the mechanism: late-night tweets.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)10. Trump is tossing out stats in the last few days,
of questionable origin and authenticity in his "speeches." These last few speeches seem more controlled.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)11. that countdown better be in hours, not days.