Donald Trump To Start Getting CIA Security Briefings. That Should Be Fun! [View all]

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So here’s a fun fact: Once Donald Trump is officially declared the Republican nominee for president at July’s Republican National Convention, he’ll start getting classified intelligence briefings from the CIA. When Chris Hayes mentioned that little detail of the campaign process, he added, “Just let that sink in for a moment.” Yeah, sorry, we should have warned you to have an emergency defibrillator nearby.
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Oh, sure, there are some naysayers who worry there might be something a little questionable about giving national security information to a man given to blurting out whatever stray thoughts come into his weirdly coifed head. Josh Marshall from Talking Points Memo tweeted an amusing fact about Trump’s new campaign guru, Paul Manafort:

Worth noting. Trump soon starts getting classified CIA briefings. His campaign chief works for pro-Putin Russian oligarchs. Shld go fine.

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Then of course there are the exciting prospects for Trump interviews and debates — even if he manages not to blurt out secrets from his briefings, he already has a habit of telling crowds insane shit that simply isn’t true, assuring them it’s from Top Sources. Once he actually has access to genuine secrets, we won’t know whether his “informed sources” are Alex Jones or the spooks from Fairfax. Not that Trumpers worry too much about sources anyway. Since everyone already assumes he’s full of shit, our enemies will never know whether he’s spouting nonsense or real secrets — it’s a brilliant variation on Nixon’s “Madman Theory” strategy. And if he accidentally does reveal something classified, Trump can always scream at Hillary Clinton for endangering America with her private email server.

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