Former President Trump released Top Secret Pentagon documents to reporters

Trump is intellectually marginal. He is a loud-mouth narcissist incapable of learning from the many mistakes caused by his own big mouth.

The irony is, this is why his fans adore him. In a note of pure irony, while Trump is the party leader and the leading Republican candidate for President, his fans never discuss him. Note: See thread titles by Republicans.

Trump's mouth got him in trouble again this week. His ignorance defense in the classified documents case is in shatters by his own doing.

CNN reports, "Former President Donald Trump’s history of making inappropriate or questionable comments on tape got another chapter on Wednesday with fresh revelations from his post-White House life.

"The latest example emerged from CNN’s exclusive reporting that federal prosecutors have an audio recording of Trump acknowledging he held onto a classified Pentagon document after leaving office. The tape seems unlikely to dent his political position as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination in 2024. But it could have real consequences in the legal limbo where he lives.

"This latest tape could also end up as part of a criminal case. The recording is in the possession of the Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith, who’s investigating the retention of national defense information. Smith’s investigation has shown signs of nearing its end.

"The recording of the July 2021 meeting seriously undercuts Trump’s longstanding argument that he mentally declassified material he took with him from the White House. It also adds his Bedminster club to the potential locations where Trump had classified documents after leaving office.

"Trump causes questions about the exposure of the document since attendees at the meeting included people who did not have security clearances.

"Smith has focused on the meeting as part of the criminal investigation into Trump’s handling of national security secrets, and prosecutors have asked witnesses about the recording and the document before a federal grand jury.

At the July meeting, "Trump points to a classified Pentagon document to try to refute the idea that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley had been trying to stop him from starting a war with Iran. Note: The document is a contingency plan for a U.S. ground assault of Iran.

"On the tape, he mentions the document, which he said came from Milley."

Trump was clueless!

"The Joint Chiefs of Staff has a directorate focused on developing and proposing strategies and plans for the chairman, and another that provides guidance about current plans and operations to commanders throughout the force," CNN.

They are called contingency plans, and there are contingency plans involving various scenarios for every American rival. The former President did not know that!

In a chronic need to brag about himself, Trump discussed Top Secret Pentagon contingency plans with a group of reporters!

It is really difficult to accept that this intellectual weakling was once our President. It is equally difficult to accept that 55% of Republican voters want this mental midget to be our President again.

 

Fake news at the highest level possible..

 

Trump's time has come and gone. He needs to be given the choice of going to prison for life or going away and never running for office again. I'd be okay with either one.

 

Trumpism noted … too funny …

 

Prove "Former President Trump released Top Secret Pentagon documents to reporters"... puosu....Fake CNN ain't cutting it anymore...

 

A pathetic response from a Trump fan concerning Trump's disclosure of a Top Secret Pentagon contingency plan to reporters. Trump Republicans avoid reality, proving once again everything I have ever said about them.

 

Denying facts is very easy for MAGAs. However, that is not going to help Trump. Clearly this is another nail in Donald Trump's criminal tomb. A big one, at that. Here the prosecutor has the evidence he needed to know that Trump HAD classified documents (act) that he DID NOT declassify these documents before leaving office, that he KNEW that having documents was illegal (nexus), and that he intended to wag them in front of reporters (intent).

Case is pretty much closed. Looks like it's just a matter of filling in the paperwork and keeping the Proudboy terrorists at bay

 

It comes as no surprise that Trump's fans are largely ignoring this thread. Those that have replied deny reality and blame CNN for its report. Trump's carelessness regarding classified material is on every major network. Trump's fans will claim they are all wrong. It's "fake news."

Trump's fans chose our President in 2016!

Trump has lost every election he has been in, and most of his endorsed candidates have lost. Under his leadership, the GOP lost both the House and the Senate.

Despite the fact that the Democrats chose the worst possible candidate in 2016 --Hillary Clinton -- and Trump was helped along by the FBI director who opened an investigation of Clinton ten days before the election, Trump still lost the popular vote.

Trump is a loser, but his fans adore him for some unknown reason they cannot explain. They say they like Trump's policies, but they never explain what policies they are talking about.

Trump's domestic and foreign policies were a disaster. That is why he lost his reelection by seven million votes.

Today, he is facing a criminal indictment, lost a $5 million sexual assault lawsuit, and is facing multiple DOJ indictments for his role in inciting an attack on our capitol and stealing hundreds of pages of classified documents.

Through it all, his fans still adore him. The more trouble Trump has with the law, the more they like him. They blame the FBI for Trump's criminal activities, and the "liberal" media for reporting those illegal activities.

 

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

The Trump Eulogy

 

Prove it "Former President Trump released Top Secret Pentagon documents to reporters"....

show us the "Top Secret Pentagon contingency plan" you are claiming....let's hear the audio.....let's see the document... let's see what you have... anything like that released to reporters should be easy-peasy to kink to...

Strange how your CNN link is just more hearsay and unnamed anonymous sources journalism, and it is getting old... ""according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation""... yea now there is some top notched unverified reporting for ya...""CNN has not listened to the recording, but multiple sources described it.""

 

It is a classified document. You didn't even know that!

Anyway, I lost my Top Secret clearance when I left the Marine Corps 50 years ago.

It is interesting that Trump fans think that all the major networks are mistaken.

 

Either show us the document and/or audio or stop regurgitating what CNN has not even seen and you have not seen and is using their fake "sources" yet once again to publish their unverifiable garbage AGAIN...
Please stop spreading misinformation...

 

once again you are wrong
"It is a classified document."
Typical CNN sources... unanamed and anonymous... now there is some sure fire solid reporting there..
""Reporters for CNN had not listened to the recording, but the outlet cited multiple sources who said the it shows Trump knowingly kept confidential information beyond his time as president"" ""according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation"" ""two of the sources said."" ""multiple sources told CNN""

And just how did CNN get classified leaked special counsel information...

Trump declassified the documents... before he left office..
https://archive.org/details/trump-declassified-the-documents
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202100044/pdf/DCPD-202100044.pdf

and Meadows wrote his memorandum to such
https://justthenews.com/sites/defau...Declassification of FBI Binder.01.20.2021.pdf

 

Funny how it was the left who released the details of the classified information, not Trump.

 

No.... actually they claimed, through their unnamed and anonymous sources and secret backdoors channels.... and the best part ""CNN has not listened to the recording, but multiple sources described it.""... now, there is some real top notched journalism there...

 

So...how did Trump release classified material to the press?

 

The DOJ informed the press about this alleged audio, not Trump...lol

 

What "facts" are you referring to?

 

You are so desperate to defend Trump at all costs and refuse to believe that the OP can remotely be true even after it is well documented that Trump blurted out Israeli Top secret information to Russian diplomats at a meeting in The White House

 

Great.... then show us the recording or the document that CNN has not listened to but published the unverified claim...

 

I am here to defend "truth and justice".... funny it is your call name but your posts reflect otherwise..

Prove it.... ""Trump blurted out Israeli Top secret information to Russian diplomats at a meeting in The White House"" and tell us how you know this as any oval office matters are classified..... oh wait... I get it.... CNN heard it through their unnamed anonymous source AGAIN who had a cup to the wall and was listening.

 

Where have you been hiding?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...MQFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2Echx49R8cVzfJb2DhAMJv

Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Gave to Russians

 

As is their nature, Republicans are adding statements to the original report so they have something to say. They argue against what they imagined.

It is a common tactic by Republicans when they are unable to question the original reporting.

 

The above is a bunch of CNN fake noooooooz
Also, the expressed anti-Trump opinions are hilarious.

Yeah, they really got him this time!

 

Is that crickets we both are hearing?