Brumar, of all the incidents of Trump knowingly sharing classified info, the big question is WHY.
We've heard the usual accusations:
- Trump is PooTin's puppet and is giving them away to RuZZia
- Trump wants to use these documents as leverage for whatever political shenanigans he has planned
- Trump wants to sell them and make himself even richer than before
But I think there's a simpler explanation. Like Jack Teixeira, the Call of Duty n00b, Trump simply wanted to win arguments.
From CNN:
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Exclusive: Donald Trump admits on tape he didn’t declassify ‘secret information’ (msn.com)
CNN first reported last week that prosecutors had obtained the audio recording of Trump’s 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, resort, with two people working on the autobiography of Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows as well as aides employed by the former president, including communications specialist Margo Martin.
The transcript of the audio recording suggests that Trump is showing the document he’s discussing to those in the room. Several sources have told CNN the recording captures the sound of paper rustling, as if Trump was waving the document around, though is not clear if it was the actual Iran document.
“Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this,” Trump says at one point, according to the transcript. “This was done by the military and given to me.”
Trump was complaining in the meeting about Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley. The meeting occurred shortly after The New Yorker published a story by Susan Glasser detailing how, in the final days of Trump’s presidency, Milley instructed the Joint Chiefs to ensure Trump issued no illegal orders and that he be informed if there was any concern.
“Well, with Milley – uh, let me see that, I’ll show you an example. He said that I wanted to attack Iran. Isn’t that amazing? I have a big pile of papers, this thing just came up. Look. This was him,” Trump says, according to the transcript. “They presented me this – this is off the record, but – they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him. We looked at some. This was him. This wasn’t done by me, this was him.”
Trump continues: “All sorts of stuff – pages long, look. Wait a minute, let’s see here. I just found, isn’t that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know. Except it is like, highly confidential. Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.”
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Look at how many times he demanded the people in the room to "look, look at this."
Look at how many times Trump had to repeat the phrase "This was him," as if the point he was making was the most important point in the whole world.
This is the most believable AND the most unbelievable explanation at the same time.
Believable because it fits Trump's personality.
Unbelievable because of the depths to which Trump's own ego will take him.
People need to figure out, sooner rather than later, that Trump is a complete and utter moron.
"But but I can declassify documents with my mind alone!!!"
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