Former Secretary of Defense walks through what would happen to him if he took the documents Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen said that had he taken the documents that Donald Trump did he would have been arrested.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Cohen called it "stunning" that the information of such a serious nature would have made it out of the White House, much less Washington, D.C., to the private possession of a former president.

"I can't recall any other example in my experience in politics, to be sure, where we ever had a president take that kind of information into his personal possession and not have it strictly guarded by official agencies," said Cohen. "It is just unprecedented. I think it's -- to follow up on the question you asked a moment ago, our allies will have less trust in us to the extent they believe that we are not conscious of the necessity of keeping this tightly secure. They will not share that information. Secondly, we might be gathering information even unbeknownst to them that would lend itself once again to less trust."

That level of trust among nations is one of the most important pieces of diplomacy and foreign policy. He explained that the U.S. pays billions to order such intelligence on adversaries.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-secretary-of-defense-walks-through-what-would-happen-to-him-if-he-took-the-documents-trump-did/ar-AA11zvUQ

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1. "It is just unprecedented"

There's that word again! It just keeps coming back up, like a bad oyster.

[musclecar6]

2. Points

Well taken. I hope at some point soon, this gets resolved for the American people the same as it would for any citizen of our country. Cause after all, that's all Trump is now, a private citizen.

[Tetrachloride]

3. So, a Secretary of Defense would be treated way more harshly

than Trump has been

[jmowreader]

4. No, Mr. Cohen, you're quite wrong

Some of the documents he had, you would have been arrested if you were in the same room as them. Trump had only the best documents, and he deserves the best electric chair for having them in his broom closet. Does La-z-Boy make electric chairs? Would they make one if we asked nicely?

[LymphocyteLover]

5. Once AGAIN-- how is it Republicans don't get this and how important it is for national security????

FFS, Repubs have long had a unjustified reputation for being strong on national security, but they have squandered every bit of that in their defense of this loathsome FPOTUS.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

6. Spot on and in the future

they won't have a leg to stand on if they start running their mouths about national security.