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Showing Original Post only (View all)Are you kidding me??? [View all]
Presidential candidates are not required to pass a security clearance background check???
That is an enormous hole in our national security structure.
If they had to pass a security check before finalizing the nominees, we would have...
No more refusing to produce tax returns.
No more playing patty cake with foreign oligarchs.
No more sharing top secret information with foreign dictators.
No more presidents compromised by their sexual exploits.
No more presidents suspected of having a history of money laundering for Russian mobsters.
No more presidents who are owned by the Russian controlled NRA.
And so on...
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The ultimate security check should be the election. Of course, it failed us in 2016.
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#1
It would be a terrible idea to require a security clearance before running for office
CloudWatcher
Sep 2019
#13
Some are arguing that no one before trump has been unpatriotic - we didn't need security checks
erronis
Sep 2019
#14
Disagree. He was very well vetted by those that counted - the money that funds the RNC/NRA/Tpotters
erronis
Sep 2019
#25