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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Trying to Impress Yet Another Foreign Counterpart by Sharing Sensitive Intel
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Trump tells Duterte of two U.S. nuclear subs in Korean waters: NYT
U.S. President Donald Trump told his counterpart that Washington has sent two nuclear submarines to waters off the Korean peninsula, the New York Times said, comments likely to raise questions about his handling of sensitive information...
Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte Washington had "a lot of firepower over there", according to the New York Times, which quoted a transcript of an April 29 call between the two.
"We have two submarines the best in the world. We have two nuclear submarines, not that we want to use them at all," the newspaper quoted Trump as telling Duterte, based on the transcript.
The report was based on a Philippine transcript of the call that was circulated on Tuesday under a "confidential" cover sheet by the Americas division of the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs.
According to the Times, a senior Trump administration official in Washington, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the call and insisted on anonymity, confirmed the transcript was an accurate representation of the call between the two leaders...
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Trump Trying to Impress Yet Another Foreign Counterpart by Sharing Sensitive Intel (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2017
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Orrex
(63,172 posts)1. Clearly Trump has no ability to deal with intelligence
OnDoutside
(19,948 posts)2. Nice try in getting Trump and intelligence in the same sentence !
babylonsister
(171,035 posts)3. Unbelievable. Maybe he's just not able
to learn a thing. GRRRRR....
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)4. Nothing, sister.
In his ear, out his mouth.
He gotta go.
bigtree
(85,977 posts)5. he's either demented or ignorant
...or he just doesn't give a damn about the safety and security of the nation.
I think it's a combo of everything, emphasis on demented and ignorant.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)6. That report is worth a read
Hilariously stupid