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Trump’s Threat to American Security [1]

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Date: 2022-09-08

Donald Trump stored nuclear secrets among the many highly classified documents that he kept at his Mar-a-Lago estate. In addition, reporting by the Washington Post reveals that there was at least one document that detailed the nuclear infrastructure of an as-yet unnamed country. In addition, Trump possessed documents with the Special-Access Programmes (SAP) designation, which is so restricted in circulation that even cabinet level officials do not all have access to them. Even more frightening is that Trump possessed documents with the Humint Control Systems (HCS) designation, which gives information about human intelligence operatives abroad. These revelations have led many security experts to shake their heads, wondering at just how much damage Trump’s actions may have had on the security of the country.

While it is perhaps a reach to imagine that Trump was selling secrets, it is certainly true that Trump has been so inept and so reckless that even now, there are empty folders whose contents are missing. This case really reflects Trump’s competence and management style. You just have to think back to the Trump Administration, and the state of constant chaos, to realize how Trump could not only take government documents, but store them in such a reckless fashion.

In an interview with MSNBC, the former CIA director, John Brennan, says that current intelligence professionals are “shaking their heads” at Trump’s recklessness. Brennan believes that Mar-a-Lago was being targeted by Russian spies ever since Trump lost the 2020 election. We’ve already seen that a Ukrainian truck driver’s daughter was able to pose as a Rothschild heiress , and mingle with Trump and people at Mar-a-Lago. This was the softest intelligence target in the country. Trump took some of the most sensitive documents in the country, and placed them in the least secure facility you can imagine, stuffing some of these documents in his desk.

Something must be done about Trump’s crimes. If we are to maintain the rule of law, Trump has to be held to account. We cannot live in a country where a former president is allowed to steal state secrets, and stuff them in his desk, put American intelligence operatives at risk, and damage the security of the country, and get away with it with nothing more than a stern warning.

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