Donald Trump cannot be trusted with secret information

Posted on: August 26, 2022 at 13:30:24 CT

affecting our national security. As President he repeatedly disclosed information recklessly in settings where it was completely inappropriate and damaging to our national security. The DOJ knows this, which is why they had to get a search warrant to recover all the stuff he stole from the White House and was keeping in an unsecure setting at MAL.

In fact, President Trump built a clear track record of recklessly revealing classified information. Most famously, he revealed secrets to members of the Russian government during an Oval Office visit in 2017. The information that was shared reportedly came from a close ally in the Middle East who had “access to the inner workings of the Islamic State,” according to the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Later that same year Trump told Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte the positions of two nuclear submarines off the coast of North Korea: a huge secret that Duterte had no “need to know.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-submarines-idUSKBN18K15Y?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


And again in 2017, Trump told Xi Jinping about a U.S. missile strike in Syria over a “beautiful piece of chocolate cake” at Mar-a-Lago. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/12/trump-xi-jinping-chocolate-cake-syria-strikes?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


In 2018, Trump posted video on Twitter of several U.S. Navy SEALS while on a trip to Al Asad Airbase in Iraq, revealing the commandos’ unblurred faces and location. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/27/trump-iraq-location-tweet-troops-visit-revealed?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email


Then, in 2019, he tweeted a classified image of an Iranian missile launch site that amateur satellite trackers quickly determined came from a USA-224 spy satellite. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/30/world/middleeast/trump-iran-missile-explosion-satellite-image.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

In short, he repeatedly recklessly disregarded the national interest of the United States by revealing top secret information that compromised our national security.

He should never be allowed to set foot in the Oval Office again. He is a danger to our country.