A man you can bait with a Tweet

[Danny Bateman]

Trump apparently confirmed a story on a classified operation with that first tweet about arming the Syrian rebels. That, to me, is pretty close to disseminating classified info via tweet.

 

Amazing this dirtbag would only call McCain a hero when he's going to vote for something Trump wants. Still never apologized for saying he's not a hero because he was captured.

 

He also appears to be trying to force his thumb onto the scale of not only Congress (re: Amazon) but his AG Sessions (re: Clinton and leakers).

The principles of protecting classified info and an independent DOJ are melting away before our eyes.

[TGHusker]

In the Loose Lips Sinks Ships category - what happens when the president is the one wt the lose lips?

 

 

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/25/16025136/trump-syria-cia-twitter-program-end-covert

 

Trump just revealed a covert CIA program — over Twitter It was in the middle of a tweetstorm.

Updated by Alex Ward@AlexWardVox alex.ward@vox.com Jul 25, 2017, 11:30am EDT

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President Trump just broke a major taboo: In a late-night tweet attacking the Washington Post on Monday, he confirmed the existence of a covert CIA program to arm and train Syrian rebels to remove Bashar al-Assad from power.

"The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my ending massive, dangerous, and wasteful payments to Syrian rebels fighting Assad," the president tweeted.

It's a stunning admission, even though the program was a well-known secret. The CIA rarely, if ever, confirms or denies stories about its operations, even if they're reported in the media.

And while the president has the authority to declassify this information, his casual disclosure of a highly classified operation — on Twitter, no less — will only exacerbate the ever-growing rift between him and the nation’s intelligence agencies.

The CIA program was pretty well-known. That doesn’t mean Trump should have tweeted about it.

In his tweet, the president was referring to a July 19 Washington Post report detailing his decision to end the Obama-era covert CIA program to train and equip Syrian rebels to help take down Assad. Unnamed officials told the Post that Trump chose to shutter the covert program after meeting with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster before his July 7 face-to-face with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany

Trump didn’t clarify which parts of the report he considered to be fake news. But just that tweet alone confirmed both that the program exists and that the US is not looking to remove Assad for now. For those following the conflict, it was already apparent that was America’s policy in Syria

But openly deriding US spies is something Trump likes to do publicly. Regardless, it’s another instance of Trump’s wanton handling of some of the nation’s most important secrets — angering intelligence officials and revealing US plans for one of the world’s most brutal and deadly wars along the way.

This is yet another reason for the intelligence community to distrust Trump

Trump has no problem letting his negative feelings about the US intelligence community be known — even in the most diplomatic settings.

ia. That still doesn’t mean the president should admit it publicly, embarrassing one of the country’s most storied intelligence agencies in the process.

 

[BigRedBuster]

That's a great way to improve relations and convince intelligence agencies you can be trusted with vital information.

 

It's amazing what an idiot this guy is.

[NM11046]

Its' going to be fun to watch this immature, classless, misoygynistic, bully go down in smoke. He is overlooking the other 8 (and one) that voted against yesterday.

 

[NM11046]

Somebody better go grab the new twets - I anticipate great discussions and debates re: them. (I'm on the road)

[BigRedBuster]

 

[TGHusker]

 

Trump doesn't have the balls to fire Sessions it appears. He rants about Sessions as though he had nothing to do wt making him AG or having the ability to replace him. This guy is a 1000% jerk. He appoints dopes like Rick Perry who hold his water and then goes after Sessions, who did the ethical thing in stepping aside of the Russian investigation. Trump wants nothing buy yes men - I thought Obama was narcissistic I was wrong O is a saint in comparison to this guy. Trump is the true picture of narcissistic personality disorder:

10 signs you are a narcissist include:

Does this sound familiar??

1. Having an inflated sense of self-importance

2. Expecting to be viewed as superior despite lack of evidence

3. Exaggerating and boasting about abilities and achievements

4. Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, physical beauty, romantic relationships, power or intelligence

5. Requiring constant attention and admiration

6. Disregarding others’ feelings (lacking empathy)

7. Taking advantage of others to achieve selfish goals

8. Envying others and believing yourself to be the object of others’ envy

9. Reacting to criticism with anger

10. Demanding that others immediately meet your needs without question (behaving in an entitled manner)

 

http://www.lifescript.com/health/briefs/0/10_signs_you_are_a_narcissist.aspx

 

 

AND IF WE CANNOT USE ARTICLE 4 TO REMOVE TRUMP AS BEING PSYCOLOGICALLY UNFIT FOR THE OFFICE, THEN WE ARE

[zoogs]

This has got nothing to do with balls; if it did I expect Trump would have gone and done it, since that's about how his brain works. I worry it's too simple to dismiss the President as simply an immature child. Though the image is no doubt not unfair.

 

This is fundamentally about rule of law in American society. Is the AG the country's top law enforcement official or the President's personal legal protector? Trump views everyone in his orbit as under his thumb. Listen to the comments his new man Mooch has been making. This is a man who blatantly wishes for and designs to be an authoritarian, autocratic ruler.

 

Yes, Trump is a bumbling narcissist and a dope. Recognize, though, that he surrounds himself with lictors and they are carrying the fasces.

[NM11046]

[NM11046]

[zoogs]

Do we? I don't.

[funhusker]

^^^this is starting to get really, really creepy...

[BigRedBuster]

Do we? I don't.

I'll guarantee....neither does he.

[NM11046]

He most certainly saw that on Fox News and thought it sounded catchy. And his tweets about the transgender military announcement were not in his hand (imo). Funny how that was on his personal accnt and hasn't (to my knowledge) been announced via the WH yet.

[Moiraine]

Trump thinks he is God

And wants America to worship him.