Trump said whoever 'leaked' info on his White House bunker stay should be 'executed,' new book claim

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker during protests last June had committed treason and should be executed for sharing details about the episode with members of the press, according to excerpts of a new book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender.

Trump, along with then-first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, were all taken to the underground bunker for a period of time during the protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd as protesters gathered outside the building. Bender writes in the book, titled "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, that Trump, in the days following his time in the bunker, held a tense meeting with top military, law enforcement and West Wing advisers, in which he aired grievances over the leak.

"Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the most upset some aides had ever seen the president," Bender writes.

'Whoever did that, they should be charged with treason!' Trump yelled. 'They should be executed!'" the book reads.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/13/politics/trump-white-house-bunker-leak-executed-treason-book-claims/index.html

[peppertree]

1. A Hitler Downfall spoof anyone?

This headline was just made for it.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. I think the Three Stooges did one. You Nazty Spy.

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Moronika for Morons.

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[hurple]

27. The way the Stioges were treated was a crime.

And the current status of the corporate holdings is deplorable.

The Joe Besser family are scum.

[peppertree]

31. What happened?

[hurple]

45. In a nutshell

The DeRita family went behind the backs of the Howard and Fine families to strong arm the rights away from the rightful heirs.

So, the heirs of a guy who was a stooge for, what, a drink of water during their "has been" years now own the trademark and rights to the entire catalog. It's disgusting.

And that's not even getting into how the studio treated the Stooges during their heyday. The studio kept them so busy that the guys never knew how popular they really were, and then the studio used that lack of knowledge to keep their contracts at peanuts pay level.

Those guys deserved better.

[peppertree]

58. Thank you for that well-versed history

Never ceases to amaze me how vicious some people get whenever money's on the table.

[pfitz59]

43. Do you mean Joe DeRita?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3_Entertainment

[hurple]

44. Oops...

Yeah, my bad.

[Vogon_Glory]

30. Somehow I can't imagine Melania playing Eva Braun and

staying in the bunker to the bitter end.

[Botany]

2. The man is quite crazy. And didn't Trump publicly say he never was in the White House Bunker?

[Ned Low]

10. I think he admitted being there...

... but claimed he was inspecting it.

[marble falls]

16. All depends, who wants to know?

[onetexan]

49. Hitler holding the bible

[xxqqqzme]

55. 'Wrapped in a flag

and carrying a cross."

check
and
check.

[cos dem]

3. I'm sure he's only bent out of shape on this topic because it exposes him for the coward that he is.

[PJMcK]

13. He is a coward, but...

... the decision to move Trump, his wife and son into the bunker was made by the Secret Service. They have absolute authority to move the president to safety.

Not only is Trump a coward but this story illustrates his stupidity. Trump could have been the one to tell the story and spin it to make himself look heroic. He could have told the press the story in an amusing way downplaying the dangers that the Secret Service perceived. Instead, he lied, as usual.

What a whiny, stupid little shit.

[LittleGirl]

46. My question is ?

Why wasn’t he taken there on January 6th? If he was in danger, so be it.
He was the instigator so he had to watch from the WH, not below it.

[onetexan]

50. Goes to show whose really behind the 1/6 insurrection, dsnt it?

[LittleGirl]

53. Yup nt

[LudwigPastorius]

51. The mob was 2 miles away from the White House.

I'm guessing the Secret Service deemed there was plenty of time to move him if events warranted it.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Shoe on the other foot Donny!

You can't appreciate the parallels and differences between your bunker experience and how Congress felt on January 6. How did it feel to worry about your safety due to crowds with loud voices? But you're lucky. Not one protestor crossed over the WH lawn, into the WH, looking for you in your bunker with the intention of harm, maybe even hanging you. No damage to the property. But like Dr. Smith in "Lost in Space," you were cowering and shivering in the WH basement, hoping it would go away.

[Blue Owl]

5. Whiny Bunker Biitch

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[obamanut2012]

23. Why is he a bitch?

[LakeArenal]

39. I'd change that. Baby would be much better.

[snowybirdie]

6. Amazingly

When the Capitol was under siege, he stayed in the WH watching tv!

[Evolve Dammit]

7. And relishing in the violence that he created. Just a preview if he regains power.

[KS Toronado]

9. He enjoys watching the MAGA ARMY he created

We need to be on top of his Army if he calls them up to do battle again.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. TFG is crazy

[IronLionZion]

11. It would be super funny if he leaked it himself

as in he was tweeting about it and forgot or something like that

[marble falls]

15. I'm sure of it. He only stayed less than an hour, I'm surprised, one would think a rat hole ...

... would be a comfortable fit for him. Maybe when Barron and Melania got bored with it, it shamed him out.

[wnylib]

40. I'm betting that the whole scene

in front of the church with the Bible was just an excuse to forcefully clear away the protesters.

Not just a law and order stunt for his cult, but a way to get rid of protesters so the Secret Service didn't keep him confined in the bunker.

[marble falls]

56. Every freaking thing 45 does, is done with pretext.

[marble falls]

12. Picture of 45 leaving his bunker ...

...

I think the man responsible for dissembling, ignoring, minimizing, denying while over 600,000 died should be the only person in the world I would consider for the death penalty.

I wonder if he would be the only calm person in the room, like Saddam was when he was hung.

Do not think I am praising Saddam. If we were Iraq, 45 is our Saddam.

[secondwind]

26. Hanging is too good, imho...

[marble falls]

32. Use a dirty rope?

[bucolic_frolic]

14. TFG's trying to find a treason scapegoat so The January Gang walks

'Treason? Already played that card. No one here by that name.'

[George II]

18. ....

[sheshe2]

19. 😂😂😂

[viva la]

22. I love that picture of Obama

that skeptical, searching look, slightly amused-- sigh, how did we go from that calm, thoughtful intellectual to the screaming meemee ?

(At least we went from the screaming meemee to a genial, thoughtful leader.)

[Talitha]

20. This is a democracy.... let's vote on who should be executed for treason.

[Mr. Ected]

21. Good to know that Trump favors capital punishment for treasonous crimes

Means he'll submit quietly when applied to him.

[usaf-vet]

24. It show his pure cowardice and his use of others to bully his way in the world. He wouldn't ....

..... last five minutes on the street without his bodyguards.

He thinks that people admire him because he is not punched in the face on a daily basis.

Set him loose without the hired muscle and he would quickly find out the truth.

[smirkymonkey]

59. +1000

I would love to see him let loose on the streets of NYC with no protection.

[seta1950]

25. The man

Is totally crazy, 😮execute someone for leaking that kind of info😯?then he should be executed for leaking state secrets to russia of all people

[Jon King]

28. Treason is punishable by life in prison or death.....

So a whole lotta folks from Jan 6th ought to be facing some epic punishments.

[SledDriver]

29. In his bunker, the White House bunker, a coward sleeps tonight...

a-wee-snowflake, a-wee-snowflake

[LetMyPeopleVote]

33. That's what crazy dictators do

Link to tweet

[mdbl]

35. It doesn't take a leaker to make trump look bad

he does the job all by himself.

[mdbl]

34. Who the "F" does he think he is?

King Henry the VII
or
The Queen of Tarts

[bringthePaine]

36. no balls or brains, just a festering blob of putrescent protoplasm...

[Loge23]

37. You know what has been executed? This country.

So now we'll get more and more "first-hand" accounts of what virtually everyone on this site at least knows to be true: we had a madman in the Oval Office.
The madman is still, somehow, riling up his brain-dead followers at rallies and too many states - run by his brain-dead followers - are imposing new barriers to voting in order to maintain their power. This is all normal now, as outrageous as it is to us.
Two lunatics in Congress, one an alleged pedophile, and the other simply a lunatic, are embarking on tour now - apparently free to pollute the body politic with more nonsense.
We don't have any national voting rights bill, no infrastructure bill, and a most unhealthy filibuster blocking any meaningful reform of our seemingly hopeless legislature. Again, this is normal now.
We have the king of kentucky and his one million votes to keep him in office continuing to effectively rule the Senate.
We have two idiots continuing to dither away any hope of progress on ending the draconian minority-rule we all suffer from.
What will it take for this country to wake up?

[wnylib]

42. Speaking of TFG's madness,

many have speculated that it is due to drugs, strokes, or Alzheimer's. Could it be late stage syphilis?

[Totally Tunsie]

38. The Queen of Hearts said it best:

[mwooldri]

41. I believe the leaker was either John Barron or David Dennison.

I wouldn't put it past TFG to leak the info as one of his alter egos.

[chowder66]

47. We wants cracked skulls, executions, shooting of limbs, etc.

The thing is that this isn't just for "liberals" it's for anyone he decides he has a problem with at any moment in time.
He turns on those around him.

And for those assholes that support him.....they really should be careful of what they wish for.

[riversedge]

60. Trump really should be seeing a psychiatrist for his violent outbursts.

[chowder66]

61. That will never happen and there isn't enough time in the world for him to fix a thing.

Prison might knock him down a notch but probably not. He's made this way and won't be able to change.

[tonekat]

48. I look forward to hearing of trump's demise

Really, that will be Celebration Day.

[ironflange]

52. Yet again, he shows he has no idea of what treason really is

[Paper Roses]

54. Sometimes when I read these reports, I shake my head.

Execution? Good grief, this idiot should be locked up. This is one of the worst things I have ever read.
He hid from his own followers and now wants those who exposed him executed? What next?
I'm at the end of my rope trying to figure out why this idiot has any followers. I hope I don't come in contact with any of them. I'll probably be shot if I express my opinion.

[Mr.Bill]

57. The book I am waiting for

is the one where someone gives the details of every time Trump ordered the military to do something and they said "No, sir, we're not going to be doing that."


I would be willing to bet he ordered nuclear weapons to be used a number of times.

[SouthBayDem]

62. The WSJ has been consistently critical of Trump.

Although it is editorially conservative, it's more Eastern Establishment (think Bushes) than MAGA/populist. Its position is basically "support his policies, not the person" - for instance its November 4, 2016 editorial:

Yet while this could be a 1980-like moment of economic renewal, Mr. Trump is no Ronald Reagan. The Gipper came to office with a coherent and firmly held world view formed by decades of reading and experience as a Governor. It isn’t obvious that Mr. Trump reads anything at all. He absorbs what he knows through conversation and watching TV, and he has no consistent philosophy.

This makes it hard to predict how he would respond to the shocks and surprises that buffet any President. His firmest policy conviction seems to be that trade is a zero-sum game and that America is losing from global commerce. But if he follows through on his vow to withdraw from trade pacts, impose tariffs on imports and punish U.S. companies that invest abroad, he could cause a recession. The main economic battle in a Trump Administration would be between his pro-growth domestic reforms and his anti-growth trade policy.

And its June 25, 2020 editorial:

...he wasted his chance to show leadership by turning his daily pandemic pressers into brawls with the bear-baiting press and any politician who didn’t praise him to the skies. Lately he has all but given up even talking about the pandemic when he might offer realism and hope about the road ahead even as the country reopens. His default now is defensive self-congratulation.

So it's no surprise its White House reporter would come out with a book like this.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

63. From Betty Bowers

Link to tweet

[alphafemale]

64. He is so obsessed with being able to kill someone

I think he will try to do it.

Or witness i.

He is too much of a wuss to do it himself.