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This morning's Washington Post offers a perspective on Trump's mouth.
Or rather, his indiscrete statements and admissions with that mouth.
The story is about that and the increased legal peril that mouth keeps fostering for him.....but under the surface there is also the story of Trump compromising Israel's secrets and their confidence in America, or at least in Trump.
I have posted in another recent thread about I am of mixed feelings about the jackassery that Don Trump espouses either on his social media account or on the campaign trail. On the one hand, I find that it is a negative that puts America in a bad light, or at least our cultural acceptance of his bad behavior. But, on the other hand, I view his pronouncements as a "Here's More Rope" opportunity. Let him hang himself.
Anyway, the WaPo piece highlights his legal peril, but it mentions his indiscretion in talking about Israel.
To wit:
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"But the bombastic diatribes are also giving prosecutors new material that could be used at trial to prove elements of the criminal charges against the former president. If special counsel Jack Smith succeeds in his quest for a gag order on Trump, prosecutors could lose one of their best sources of incriminating information — Trump’s mouth.
Smith has charged Trump with dozens of felonies for allegedly hoarding national security secrets after his presidency, and trying to obstruct government efforts to recover those documents. Trump has pleaded not guilty. Yet at a Wednesday night rally in Florida, Trump boasted anew about information that he suggested might be classified, and he repeated past claims that he was justified in keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and private club.
“I don’t think this has ever been told,” he said to the rally hosted by Club 47, a group trying to get him reelected. “They’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s classified information.’ Maybe it is, but I don’t think so.”
The former president then proceeded to tell a story about a U.S. operation in 2020 that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force. Trump claimed that Israel was an important partner in the effort but backed out at the last minute. “We had everything all set to go, and the night before it happened, I got a call that Israel would not be participating in this attack,” Trump said. “Nobody’s heard this story before, but I’d like to tell it to Club 47 because you’ve been so loyal and so beautiful.”
One former intelligence official who served during the Trump administration reacted with dismay when told of Trump’s remarks. The official....... said that what the former president discussed was classified information when the former official was in government.
In his speech, Trump went on to defend himself against the charges in the classified documents case, declaring: “I can do whatever I want, but I did nothing wrong.”
Or rather, his indiscrete statements and admissions with that mouth.
The story is about that and the increased legal peril that mouth keeps fostering for him.....but under the surface there is also the story of Trump compromising Israel's secrets and their confidence in America, or at least in Trump.
I have posted in another recent thread about I am of mixed feelings about the jackassery that Don Trump espouses either on his social media account or on the campaign trail. On the one hand, I find that it is a negative that puts America in a bad light, or at least our cultural acceptance of his bad behavior. But, on the other hand, I view his pronouncements as a "Here's More Rope" opportunity. Let him hang himself.
Anyway, the WaPo piece highlights his legal peril, but it mentions his indiscretion in talking about Israel.
To wit:
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"But the bombastic diatribes are also giving prosecutors new material that could be used at trial to prove elements of the criminal charges against the former president. If special counsel Jack Smith succeeds in his quest for a gag order on Trump, prosecutors could lose one of their best sources of incriminating information — Trump’s mouth.
Smith has charged Trump with dozens of felonies for allegedly hoarding national security secrets after his presidency, and trying to obstruct government efforts to recover those documents. Trump has pleaded not guilty. Yet at a Wednesday night rally in Florida, Trump boasted anew about information that he suggested might be classified, and he repeated past claims that he was justified in keeping sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago home and private club.
“I don’t think this has ever been told,” he said to the rally hosted by Club 47, a group trying to get him reelected. “They’ll say, ‘Oh, it’s classified information.’ Maybe it is, but I don’t think so.”
The former president then proceeded to tell a story about a U.S. operation in 2020 that killed Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force. Trump claimed that Israel was an important partner in the effort but backed out at the last minute. “We had everything all set to go, and the night before it happened, I got a call that Israel would not be participating in this attack,” Trump said. “Nobody’s heard this story before, but I’d like to tell it to Club 47 because you’ve been so loyal and so beautiful.”
One former intelligence official who served during the Trump administration reacted with dismay when told of Trump’s remarks. The official....... said that what the former president discussed was classified information when the former official was in government.
In his speech, Trump went on to defend himself against the charges in the classified documents case, declaring: “I can do whatever I want, but I did nothing wrong.”
