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womanofthehills

(8,661 posts)
Mon May 15, 2017, 10:55 PM May 2017

Palmer brings up a good point - This might not be the first time Trump gave classified intel

This can’t be the first time Donald Trump gave classified intel to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak

Follow the dots: Donald Trump and Sergey Kislyak first officially met backstage at a campaign speech in April 2016 (link). Trump was not yet the Republican nominee and he was therefore not yet being classified intel briefings. But Kislyak’s attendance at Trump’s first-ever foreign policy speech of the campaign was a harbinger of just how thoroughly Kislyak was pulling Trump’s strings the entire time. By the time of the Republican Convention, Kislyak was once again in attendance, and several of Trump’s advisers met with Kislyak as he rewrote a portion of the Republican party charter to his liking.

Follow the dots: Donald Trump and Sergey Kislyak first officially met backstage at a campaign speech in April 2016 (link). Trump was not yet the Republican nominee and he was therefore not yet being classified intel briefings. But Kislyak’s attendance at Trump’s first-ever foreign policy speech of the campaign was a harbinger of just how thoroughly Kislyak was pulling Trump’s strings the entire time. By the time of the Republican Convention, Kislyak was once again in attendance, and several of Trump’s advisers met with Kislyak as he rewrote a portion of the Republican party charter to his liking.

During the transition period, Trump adviser Michael Flynn made several phone calls to Kislyak. Flynn has since been exposed as a paid foreign agent of Russia. Did Trump give classified intel to Flynn, who then gave it to Kislyak? Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner also met with Kislyak during the transition (link). And these are just the Kislyak meetings we know about. It’s nearly a given that the loose lipped Trump shared classified intel with his entire circle. Which if any of them turned around and gave it to the Russian Ambassador? These questions must now be answered.
https://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/first-trump-russia/2852/
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Palmer brings up a good point - This might not be the first time Trump gave classified intel (Original Post) womanofthehills May 2017 OP
I think Trump is intimidated by Russia and so favours them in a way applegrove May 2017 #1
I think they are blackmailing him with sex tapes and other compromising information. 6000eliot May 2017 #3
Yes the Russians are in a power position over Trump. Why? We do not know applegrove May 2017 #4
Time to recognize that a bunch of incompetent amateurs are playing Presidenting the USA. L. Coyote May 2017 #2

applegrove

(118,486 posts)
1. I think Trump is intimidated by Russia and so favours them in a way
Mon May 15, 2017, 11:22 PM
May 2017

he does not American institutions. Maybe Russia reminds him of his father. I know that as a dyslexic I choke in front of people more powerful than I. Of the fear of being small.

applegrove

(118,486 posts)
4. Yes the Russians are in a power position over Trump. Why? We do not know
Mon May 15, 2017, 11:47 PM
May 2017

yet. Could be any one or more of many reasons.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. Time to recognize that a bunch of incompetent amateurs are playing Presidenting the USA.
Mon May 15, 2017, 11:25 PM
May 2017

And they are all saying, "Who knew this was going to be difficult?" and "I'm tired, let's go golfing for the weekend."

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