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Slarvax on 16 May 2017

So did he just admit committing treason?

Edit: also, he says "openly scheduled W.H. meeting", but US media wasn't allowed there. Only russian.



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JRPGfan on 16 May 2017
Bandorr said:
Nem said:

I love how the Trump fans just prefer to say the newspaper is the one lieing.

Oh what's that? Confirmed by Trump himself! lolol

You guys are fake news. :D

Trump does something

Media reports on it.

White house denies it.

Russia denies it.

Trump supporters deny it.

Trump confirms it.

Repeat.

This is getting silly now.

Esp all those guys going "fake news".

 

Slarvax said:

So did he just admit committing treason?

Edit: also, he says "openly scheduled W.H. meeting", but US media wasn't allowed there. Only russian.

Its not treason.

Hes allowed to pass on classifed information.

The matter is its stuff gathered by allies that didnt want it given to russian probably.

But doubt Trump cares how the west of the world see's the US, even if deemed untrustworthy with intel.



Zkuq on 16 May 2017
AsGryffynn said:
Hmm... Let's see... Trump, President of the United States of America, declassifies information and shares with Russia, which his position as President of the United States of America allows him to, no rules broken.

The only rule he's broken is shitting on the Russophobes in the House and Senate...

A minor correction: I don't think he's actually declassified the information, unless simply telling it to declassified parties counts as declassification.

Slarvax said:

also, he says "openly scheduled W.H. meeting", but US media wasn't allowed there. Only russian.

Literally, this says the meeting was scheduled openly, not that the meeting itself was somehow open. Not sure what his point was with that though...



areason on 16 May 2017
Nem said:
areason said:

Again just like all the Russia nonsense, this is gibberish without any proof.

It's funny how people believe what the media says, CNN can declare that the Earth is flat and people will believe them. 

I love how the Trump fans just prefer to say the newspaper is the one lieing.

Oh what's that? Confirmed by Trump himself! lolol

You guys are fake news. Caught with your fan panties down! :D

Do you understand English?

The article stated that he shared highly classified information, that wasn't even disclosed to their allies. 

All his tweet says is that he has the right to share information. 



Soundwave on 16 May 2017
Brainslug said:
There's a template to all these scandals, has anyone else noticed?

#1 Scandal happens in the administration, caused by Trump.
#2 The white house denies, denies, denies and tries to do damage control.

And then, (This will most likely happen in the next couple of days)

#3 Trump goes on a late night twitter rant or official interview and completely undermines/destroys the narrative that the white house and all his people built up to try and cover up the story.

#4 ... Start another scandal to distract from the last one.

Pretty much become the standard President Man-Baby cycle. 



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LurkerJ on 16 May 2017

So he understands Russia isn't the enemy, which he always admitted, and now he's acting on it, because the people elected him to do that. Cool. Go Trump.



Slarvax on 16 May 2017
Hiku said:
Slarvax said:

So did he just admit committing treason?

Edit: also, he says "openly scheduled W.H. meeting", but US media wasn't allowed there. Only russian.

From what I understand, the moment the President speaks of classified info, it gets declassified. So he seemingly broke no laws.
The problem is that allies will think twice before sharing intel with the US as long as Trump is in charge.

Well



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Goatseye on 16 May 2017
LurkerJ said:

So he understands Russia isn't the enemy, which he always admitted, and now he's acting on it, because the people elected him to do that. Cool. Go Trump.

The more a classified info gets out there, the less inefficient it becomes. If those allies have operatives/informants inside some terror organizations they might be done for and resources would be wasted. 

That's all against our interest and we don't know, what else this guy migh have spilled or will spill to them.



outlawauron on 16 May 2017
SpokenTruth said:
outlawauron said:

This has been the MO though, hasn't it? Will continue to wait for to continue to unfold. It's looking more like Trump talked to Russia about ISIS, but we don't much beyond that yet?

True, we may never know the truth because the White House isn't going to admit it, Russia isn't going to admit it and the foreign ally isn't going to admit.

However, we have Trump admitting he did say things (no specifics) that the White House had been denying he said (whatever it was).  Either incompetence on Trump or the White House which is just another in a long string of dubious actions from this administration in the first few months.

and with Trump talking about it + newest briefing by NSC, it's more parsing of words. They obviously shared information, but the qualifier is whether it should have been shared. I'm of the opinion that deep secrets probably shouldn't be shared to Russia, but we don't know what was actually discussed in detail.



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Nem on 16 May 2017
areason said:
Nem said:

I love how the Trump fans just prefer to say the newspaper is the one lieing.

Oh what's that? Confirmed by Trump himself! lolol

You guys are fake news. Caught with your fan panties down! :D

Do you understand English?

The article stated that he shared highly classified information, that wasn't even disclosed to their allies. 

All his tweet says is that he has the right to share information. 

Hahaha! You are beautiful in your denial.

It's all there. You are gonna have to read it again very slowly... mr english expert. xD