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WaPo: Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister

At this point, our Congress is going to be so okay with what Trump does, that Trump could probably give the nuke codes to the Russians and they'd be okay with it.
 
Republican controlled Legislative Branch:
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And the U.S. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has said he had no idea why Kislyak was at the meeting:
Tillerson said he didn’t know why Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak was present at an Oval Office meeting this week between Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kislyak is a central figure in the probe into Russian election meddling and the involvement of former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...on-meddling-well-documented-top-diplomat-says
 
"Well, maybe it's time we start considering Russia an ally because we won't be able to defeat terrorism without them."

...is the spin they'll put on this.
 
Imagine how shitty it must feel to be the guy responsible for giving Trump his daily briefings right now.

You want to feel a sense of accomplishment when you realize you were able to break the situation down so clearly even the short-attention-span idiot child in the Oval Office was able to digest and understand it, but it's overridden by the slow horror that while you were able to impress knowledge on him, nothing is capable of teaching him restraint or respect and he's just gonna fucking say whoever to whatever.
 
The law is nebulous enough here that a Republican controlled congress can handwave it while a Democrat controlled congress could impeach on this alone.
 
LOL imagine if Clinton did this.

Imagine if Obama did this.

There would literally be an armed insurrection. Hell, we wouldn't have survived last week. Imagine Obama got tired of the email news and fired Comey, then floated replacing him with Nancy Pelosi.
 
Did he break the law?

-Because, that's what this all really comes down to so far as kicking him out of office.

I think at this point, they aren't going to care if he does anything illegal.

They'll care when he starts getting in the way of their plans to screw over the rest of us.
 
Trump is doing a great job exposing all the Presidential exploits for a far more competent candidate in the years to come.

This fuckery isn't gonna end with him.
 
How many actual Republicans in power still have genuine concerns about the security and welfare of the the country and its citizens, and how many are in it simply to strip mine what they can while they have the ability to do so, then flee to another country should the nation collapse?
 
Conservatives will find a way to rationalize it. I'm not sure it's possible for them to get off this train. They were already warming up to Russia on election day. By the end of Trump's first term they'll just think Russia was always one of our closest allies so of course we'd share intel etc why wouldn't we?
 
Did he break the law?

-Because, that's what this all really comes down to so far as kicking him out of office.

Not actually true. You can be removed from office for any number of things called "high crimes," many of which are not actually crimes at all.

The term "high crimes" was a known term of art in the 18th century that meant something along the lines of dereliction of responsibility or betraying the public trust.

It doesn't mean high crime = serious crime. It means anything unbecoming of a president, most of which aren't necessarily crimes even though they could be crimes. Examples in English jurisprudence - misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, bribery (although bribery is spelled out in the Constitution).
 
Hopefully also serves as a nice dose of reality to the feds that were so anti-Clinton due to the email thing because they believed she didn't understand and respect security protocol and clearance. Welcome to Donald Trump's take on classified material.
 
I'm still convinced this man had no intention of being president and is just trying to get himself impeached and Republicans just don't give a shit.

Resigning makes him look weak and a quitter, getting impeached he can push a "weak government couldn't stand me" speech at his weekly rallies where all his Trumplets eat up all the shit he feeds them
 
Conservatives will find a way to rationalize it. I'm not sure it's possible for them to get off this train. They were already warming up to Russia on election day. By the end of Trump's first term they'll just think Russia was always one of our closest allies.

We have always been at war with Oceania.
 
Wonder who the source was, and if they've got the leverage to tell everyone else on the Hill this needs to stop NOW.

Spicey is gonna have fun tomorrow.

I think it's the overall administration's incompetence worth regards to events like this that is causing them to consider limiting our canceling press briefs.

If they only do one a week or two there is only so many questions (or attention span) the media can hold them to the fire.
 
I'm pretty sure that one day he's just going to tweet some highly classified information, just as a way of showing how "great at intel" he is.

Somebody should tweet at him "I bet they haven't even told you ANYTHING about the upcoming aliens at the secret base" and see where it goes from there.

Edit: Beaten, this thread is moving FAST.

So can someone ask him about Area 51 or Aliens already?

Maybe say something like "Wow I bet you don't know anything about aliens!" and see what he counters with.
 
"Trump hands Putin the nuclear football with launch codes, seen as extending an olive branch to mend relations with Russia."
 
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