Trump Boasts About Watching ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video

[Chicago1980]

Source: The Huffington Post

Trump Boasts About Watching ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video Immediately After Becoming Eligible To Receive Classified Briefings

His vivid description raised questions about whether he disclosed classified material.
08/03/2016 07:12 pm ET | Updated 3 hours ago

Donald Trump on Wednesday described vivid details from a video he said he had watched earlier in the day of Iranian officials unloading cash from an airplane. The money was part of a payment, announced earlier this year, from the U.S. to Iran to settle a decades-old dispute over an incomplete weapons sale.

“I’ll never forget the scene this morning,” Trump told the crowd in Daytona Beach, Florida, of what he said he had watched. “Iran ― I don’t think you’ve heard this anywhere but here ― Iran provided all of that footage, the tape, of taking that money off that airplane.

“Over there, where that plane landed, top secret, they don’t have a lot of paparazzi, you know,” Trump said. “The paparazzi doesn’t do so well over there.” But “they have a perfect tape, obviously done by a government camera, and the tape is of the people taking the money off the plane. It’s a military tape. It’s a tape that was a perfect angle, nice and steady.”

No publicly available video matches what Trump described. This raises the possibility that Trump was either fabricating the contents of a non-existent video, or he was disclosing information to which he has newly been granted access.

Trump’s description of the “top secret” tape came just days after the Republican presidential nominee became eligible to receive classified intelligence briefings ― a privilege afforded to the nominees of the two major political parties in order to prepare them, should they win the White House.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-iran-intelligence-briefing_us_57a26249e4b04414d1f370b9

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http://www.redstate.com/aglanon/2016/08/03/first-thing-trump-top-secret-info-share-world/

BIG MOUTH: Trump Blabs Top Secret Info From Intelligence Briefings At Campaign Rally
Posted at 9:00 pm on August 3, 2016 by Ben Howe

There is zero part of me that has ever thought he is the type of guy who could keep a secret. He's proven this several times by disclosing the contents of off-the-record meetings and private conversations in order to get digs in on people who had "wronged" him.

Unfortunately, as a candidate for president, Trump is granted access to top secret intelligence briefings in preparation for the possibility that he will be sitting in the oval office someday.

There was never any way that would end well and it appears to have already gone south, mere days after getting access as Trump described in detail an apparently top-secret video he watched.

[cstanleytech]

1. So either he is lying or he just revealed classified information illegally and should be charged.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Well at least he didn't email it....

[forgotmylogin]

3. Tact would be a good Presidential quality.

No/tact

[Egnever]

4. I sure hope no one is surprised by this

You had to know this was coming. This clown has zero self control.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Next up - Area 51.

[elleng]

6. I understand they have NOT received briefings, won't for a while.

(Heard it today from a reliable source; don't recall who it was.) Sounds like he's lying (and fantisizing!)

[global1]

7. He Was Probably Making It Up After The Story Broke That We Sent Money Over To Iran As Part....

of the nuclear deal with them and soon after 4 hostages were released. He heard the story and thought that his followers would believe anything he says - so he made this up to push the story.

[Beartracks]

14. Likely. n/t

[Native]

24. James Clapper indicated the offers for such briefings are going out this week.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nominations-bestowed-presidential-candidates-receive-classified-briefings/

GWEN IFILL: Now that they have won their respective party nominations, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are eligible to receive classified intelligence briefings.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper indicated the offers for such briefings are going out this week. But what kind of secrets will Trump and Clinton become privy to? Some partisans have been suggesting neither candidate can be trusted with that information.

GWEN IFILL: How does it work? I mean, do they go to the CIA and get the briefing? Does the CIA come to them?

They try to make sure it’s a secure location. Part of it depends on whether they have asked for the overview or a deep dive on one topic. So, they might just make a hotel room secure. They might even set up what is called a SCIF, which is a special secure facility, or just sweep it.

[elleng]

25. Thanks for the info, Native.

[Native]

27. Sure, but did you notice the article says "offers"? I guess the briefings aren't mandatory until we

have a president-elect. I wonder if Trump even elected to get them.

[elleng]

28. Good question. Does he know he has the 'option???'

[Native]

29. Totally steep learning curve with all the stuff that's breaking lately.

[awoke_in_2003]

31. I never understood

why the candidates get these. One is going to lose. Two months is enough time to get the winner up to speed.

[SunSeeker]

8. Trump's lying. Per the update at the HuffPo link:

UPDATE: 9:11 p.m. ― A video clip shown on Fox News Wednesday morning appeared to show U.S. citizens arriving in Geneva on Jan. 17. The video was clearly marked “Geneva, Switzerland.”

If this is the “top secret” Iran video that Trump claims to have seen, it would mean that Trump told his audience a half-dozen things about the tape that aren’t accurate. Contrary to what Trump said about the video he claimed to have seen, this video was not shot in Iran, it did not show the exchange of cash, it was not “top secret,” it was not “a military tape,” and it was not “provided by Iran.” Nor was it released to “embarrass the United States,” as Trump repeatedly claimed.

On the contrary, the safe return of U.S. citizens to neutral Switzerland was widely viewed as a victory for international diplomacy and U.S. foreign policy.

A spokeswoman for the Trump campaign did not respond to an inquiry about whether Trump was referring to the Geneva tape.

[totodeinhere]

9. Yes he probably is lying in this case. But the prospect of his receiving classified

intelligence information in the near future is very scary.

[SunSeeker]

11. Indeed. nt

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

26. I bet he meant that he watched the movie "Top Secret!"

staring Val Kilmer.

[SunSeeker]

30. LOL

[citizen blues]

10. Can you spell P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-A-T-H?!?!?!?!?

[SheriffBob]

17. yes

T-R-U-M-P

[Lochloosa]

21. ...

[trusty elf]

12. ....

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[PSPS]

13. The same tape as the 9/11 "dancing in the streets of New jersey" scene, no doubt.

When will a tabloid show him having the requisite meeting with an alien that all candidates seem to have?

[TexasProgresive]

23. Actually he is the alien. n/t

[sofa king]

15. Oh, shit!

I watched that stupid speech, looking for signs that he was cracking.

He was introduced by former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Gen. Michael Flynn.

But seriously, I figured the Russians gave it to him.

[jtuck004]

16. "Please proceed". (to self: *snort*) n/t

[Vanilla Warcraft]

18. Could be a test

Maybe the intelligence agencies gave him fake video to see if he would blab.

[MBS]

19. I've been hoping that they might insert a test of some sort

I would imagine that the intelligence folks would be just as nervous as I am- and presumably much more nervous even than I am , if that's possible - about entrusting this @#$ (insert your favorite word- I've run out of vocabulary to describe him) with anything even resembling classified information.

In any case, deeply disturbing.And scary.

[whistler162]

20. relax everyone it was just this one....

[underpants]

22. Man I hate our military paparazzi

He had to through that is there to remind everyone the whoas of being so GREAT and THE BEST in America.