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Rhiannon12866

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Wed Sep 7, 2022, 07:34 PM Sep 2022

Secy. Cohen: Trump Possessing Docs 'Pertaining To Nuclear Weapons' Is 'Stunning,' 'Unprecedented'



Former Clinton Administration Defense Secretary William Cohen joins Peter Alexander with his reaction to Washington Post reporting that the FBI discovered documents detailing a foreign government’s military defenses and nuclear capabilities at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. “I can't recall any other example, in my experience in politics to be sure, where we've ever had a president take that kind of information into his personal possession and not have it strictly guarded by official agencies,” says Cohen.

“It's just unprecedented.” He explains, “We have to be worried about foreign adversaries trying to get access to it, but they could get access not through their nationals but through our own, or people who’ve been compromised working at Mar a Lago, so we don't know.” - MSNBC - Aired on 09/07/2022.



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Secy. Cohen: Trump Possessing Docs 'Pertaining To Nuclear Weapons' Is 'Stunning,' 'Unprecedented' (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 OP
I've got to wonder if other presidents typically requested documents so highly classified and, if... RussellCattle Sep 2022 #1
Well, we already knew that he ripped up and threw away the president's daily briefings Rhiannon12866 Sep 2022 #2
It baffles me too. I see it as part of Trump's overall "act" as he plays out his public personna. RussellCattle Sep 2022 #3

RussellCattle

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1. I've got to wonder if other presidents typically requested documents so highly classified and, if...
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 07:54 PM
Sep 2022

...so, how quickly they were retrieved by national security personnel. Were there no red flags about the whereabouts of this great volume of documents, if not before the election, then certainly afterwards as TFG was due to leave office? I'm guessing that this was an ongoing issue at the White House, along with ripped up documents and plugged toilets.

Rhiannon12866

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2. Well, we already knew that he ripped up and threw away the president's daily briefings
Wed Sep 7, 2022, 09:00 PM
Sep 2022

So that aides had to retrieve them from the trash and tape them back together since they're preserved for the National Archives. And we saw those boxes of documents sitting curbside when he left the White House. And apparently he was asked over and over to return them - until this past January when that stash was retrieved. I can't help wondering if there are even more, we already knew he was careless with official documents and later, a thief. And we were told that he flushed many more, hence his complaints about toilets flushing. I am just baffled, since we already knew abut his anti-presidential behavior, why he wasn't stopped early on...

RussellCattle

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3. It baffles me too. I see it as part of Trump's overall "act" as he plays out his public personna.
Thu Sep 8, 2022, 05:27 PM
Sep 2022

He always, and in every way, acts in the most outrageous manner so that others will come to expect, and put up with, that behavior. It's the same with with business dealings. He has always cheated and short-changed others in business so they can't really expect anything different this time around.

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