Pentagon to lease privately owned Trump Tower apartment for nuclear football

[babylonsister]

This moron is proving to be very expensive.


Pentagon to lease privately owned Trump Tower apartment for nuclear ‘football’
By Reuters on Sat, May 6th, 2017 at 7:04 pm

The U.S. Defense Department is finalizing a lease on a privately owned apartment in New York's Trump Tower for the White House Military Office to use for supporting President Donald Trump without providing any benefit to Trump or his organization, according to a Pentagon letter seen by Reuters.

By Mark Hosenball and Phil Stewart



WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department is finalizing a lease on a privately owned apartment in New York’s Trump Tower for the White House Military Office to use for supporting President Donald Trump without providing any benefit to Trump or his organization, according to a Pentagon letter seen by Reuters.

The Military Office carries and safeguards the “football,” the device that contains the top secret launch codes the president needs to order a nuclear attack, as well as providing him secure communications wherever he is.

The White House, Secret Service, and Defense Department had no comment on whether similar arrangements have been made at other properties Trump frequents – Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump is spending this weekend.

In a letter to Representative Jackie Speier, a Democrat on the House Armed Services and intelligence committees, Defense Department official James MacStravic, said the apartment is “privately owned and … lease negotiations have been with the owner’s representatives only.”

MacStravic, who wrote that he was “temporarily performing the duties of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics,” said any acquisition of leased space with “an annual rental in excess of $1 million must first be approved by my office.”

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[YOHABLO]

1. Something's just not right about all this folks. I smell something really bad here.

[spanone]

2. he's a for-profit so-called president

[teezy]

3. Why is a nuclear football on private property to begin with?

Ok, admittedly, I don't know the process for this. I remember Melissa McCarthy's character in Bridesmaids telling Annie where the nukes are stored. "You'd be surprised. A LOT of shopping malls." But common sense, to me, dictates that something like that should be in a secured secret government facility.

I (and everyone else) am already worried about him having these codes to begin with. Now they're being held in his private residence? God dammit, get this psycopath out of office. What, is he going to make nukes privatized assets now? This sonofabitch is a blatant threat. Liie why is it even being published where this is?

I agree with the above comments... something is NOT right about this.