My SIL scared the shit out of me the other night

[Javaman]

On FaceTime, We all (me, my gf, gf’s brother and sil)were taking about how much we all hate the oranges asshole.

Then my SIL brought up something that stopped me in my tracks.

A little background, not too long ago, about 6 years ago, my SIL worked for the DOD. Nothing major just a paper pusher. Anyway she says to everyone, “you are all forgetting something, the orange asshole is privy to national secrets, what keeps him from telling putin everything he knows after he loses the election?”

A very cold chill ran down my spine.

[Kali]

1. how do you know he hasn't already done that?

[Sherman A1]

4. Precisely

The whole thing will need a top to bottom review after the change in management in January.

[Trumpocalypse]

28. FYI

[Ptah]

36. Why are you flooding DU with this video?

[cwydro]

17. Spot on.

Exactly.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. What's stopping him now?

[SoonerPride]

3. He will sell whatever info he has tosave his skin

Including launch codes.

[grantcart]

5. Or releasing hundreds of RW prisoners

Or firing thousands of our top level bureaucrats.


The answer is nothing


He will do all of those things to try and negotiate a no prosecution deal

[beachbumbob]

6. Putin most likely knows all the stuff now.

[Sogo]

7. Exactly the point made by Frank Figliuzzi on MSNBC last night....

The counter intelligence threat continues even with him out of office....

[BComplex]

13. Clearly treason.

He's committed treason since he's been the Apprentice, or before.

[csziggy]

16. While it is the convention to keep former presidents informed is it required?

Can a former president and his former staff have their clearances removed if national security could be compromised?

[Lonestarblue]

32. Trump has broken every norm of government behavior.

Biden needs to break this one and insist that no future intelligence be provided to Trump. I believe the intelligence agencies would back him.

Trump—and Jared—will sell every government secret they know in return for money.

[csziggy]

34. Yes - I agree. Dolt45 and his family and cohorts cannot be trusted at all

Even the people in his administration, current and former, should be thoroughly investigated BEFORE they can continue to hold their security clearances. There are far too many questions about how this mal-administration has handled government secrets to allow continued access.

[WyattKansas]

25. He belongs in Gitmo, but he needs a very cold Gitmo.

Strict communications black out for him, except for very limited in-person arranged visits.

Hell, everyone who was with him in the White House and/or associated with him need to be there as well in isolation, until the previous NSA officials can be sure that they are not a risk of exposing any secrets or information.

In other words, crawl up all their asses with a microscope and keep a permanent grip on tRUMP and his spawn.

[C_U_L8R]

8. Just saying, there are severe penalties for that.

Like the most severe. But Trump could be that stupid and corrupt. Does he feel lucky?

[LisaL]

9. What's to stop him telling Putin all national secrets before the election?

Who is to say he hasn't done it already?

[StarryNite]

10. I would assume tRump would be holding that information as a bargaining chip

in exchange for money. He will sell America out completely once he loses his power as president.

[Golden Raisin]

11. He and his family have been an IMMENSE

and terrifying Security Risk since Day 1. Republicans never seemed to have had any problem with that! The family is totally without ethics or honor and are now becoming desperate/cornered. They will sell what they have been privy to for the last 4 years to the highest bidder. If they already haven't done so.

[RockRaven]

12. At least when he does it AFTER it becomes criminal and prosecutable.

Once he's no longer POTUS he loses the ability to declassify in real time.

[marybourg]

14. Yes. That's why government officials who are 420 million in debt

are generally not given security clearance. What should happen, but won’t, is that the next president should declare him a national security risk and lift his passport and monitor all his communications.

[maxsolomon]

15. He would have to LEARN what those secrets are.

Which would mean READING them, or LISTENING to someone tell him what they are.

Then he'd have to WRITE THEM DOWN (in sharpie) or REMEMBER them.

Then he'd have to STOP TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF long enough to tell them to Rusher.

I'm not that concerned.

[MineralMan]

18. After? He has probably already shared it.

[fleur-de-lisa]

19. 4 things:

1 - Dump has a problem with attention span, so he doesn't absorb a lot.

2 - He can't understand complex issues because he's pretty dense.

3 - I don't believe the intelligence community gives Dump a whole lot of sensitive data . . . they know who he is and who he serves.

4 - Anything he does know about, he already spilled to Putin.

[FakeNoose]

27. Yes to all 4 points

Thanks Fleur-de-lisa!

I came on here to say the same. You just saved me the trouble, and you did a nice job.

Chump's already given Putin everything he asked for. The rest is forgotten, or else never learned.

[Boogiemack]

20. Do we really think the "deep state" as Trump calls it, told him anything really important?

Damn, I hope not.

When Biden wins the intel community will be kept busy changing and recoding everything important. But everyone will know about whom they are speaking when they use the code name "Orange man."

[denbot]

21. Fortunately he has shunned his intel reports since day one.

He has the focus of a goldfish, and unless he’s transmitting documents, he couldn’t accurately repeat a three word sentence let alone a technical advantage.

I would be utterly shocked if he’s not fed dumbed down if not false intel with the long ago assumption that he will pass what ever he gets his hands on to the highest bidder.

[Bayard]

22. He's been handing them over all along

His many phone calls and private meetings with Putin is to get petted on the head, and told--Good Boy.

[Ferrets are Cool]

23. There is NO reason to think he hasn't already.

[Ms. Toad]

24. I've always assumed that was a given -

if he hasn't already told them everything.

[lettucebe]

26. Actually he doesn't know all that much, remember he doesn't pay attention, is prone to lying

and pretty much is bored out of his mind most of the time. Anything he tries to tell Putin or anyone else will be suspect.

I thought about this myself but after a sleep on it, it's not going to be a real problem. They really ought to start telling him some whoppers just to nail his ass later when other countries start using those planted lies against us. Should be fun.

[Nictuku]

29. With affliction(s)

Short attention span, narcissist behavior, inability to read.... I doubt he will remember or get the details correct (unless there was a drawing)

I don't doubt for a minute he would do it if there was $$ in it for himself.

[Fresh_Start]

30. wrong question...what stopped him from sharing everything already? nt

nt

[Warpy]

31. it will be as garbled as everything else he says

He understands talking money out of men who should know better. He understands about money laundering through real estate.

He thinks he knows everything about everything else because that's what simpletons do.

I am not particularly concerned because it will take many years to try to untangle the rubbish from any accurate information, and by then it will all be obsolete.

[tavernier]

33. He already has.

You can take that to the bank.

[Fla Dem]

35. I heard that mentioned as a concern on Morning Joe today.

The only safe place for the USA for this crook to be is in a Federal Penitentiary.

[PatSeg]

37. Whoa

I didn't think I could feel any worse this morning. That IS chilling.