Former President Donald Trump has spent the past two days shitposting on his off-brand Twitter app about Special Counsel Jack Smith — who was appointed less than two weeks ago to oversee two federal criminal investigations involving now-candidate Trump.
Has any new media done interviews with extant former presidents to ask them if they retained their security clearances and if and under what circumstances they reviewed classified documents post-tenure. It would make a nice chart.
My grandfather told me how much he hated the fact that the US newspapers kept covering Hitler and Mussolini. “We were so sick of hearing about them, hearing about their speeches, all their bragging and BS. Glad the papers didn’t listen to us.”
Typically they’ll give ex-president’s security briefings on a semi-regular basis at the request of the ex-president and approval of the current president. If a current president seeks advice from a former president about a foreign situation they dealt with, it’s helpful for the former president to be up to speed on the current information.
There are two parts to accessing classified information, security clearance and need to know. You can leave the military and still have a Top Secret security clearance, but that doesn’t give you the right to walk into a military basis and start rifling through their TS documents.
Joe Biden decided not to extend the courtesy of security briefings to TFG, because TFG can’t be trusted.
Smith was hired by Trump’s administration to serve as an acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee during Trump’s first year in office, his biography states
I really wish Hunter S. Thompson was still alive: he’s just about the only writer/journo I can think of who could cover TFG the way TFG really deserves to be covered.
True enough. You know that, I know that, Hivers know that, but do The Regular Folk? Of course the regular folks can’t find Canada on the map, so the educational aspect of the media is failing. All entertainment, all the time.
I just wish the Ohio State documentary would come out!
Really… seriously, is anyone listening to this dingbat anymore? Anyone that matters?
He’s hemorrhaging supporters and donors and even the Walker campaign is probably celebrating his lack of enthusiasm for their candidate.
Who really cares anymore and when does the number of people not caring finally qualify the media in dropping the breathless coverage of this guy? Bring on the indictments already and let’s get the hook to get this guy off the stage.
It’ll be on my Christmas wish list. There is a reason though for frequent trump droppings and we know what it is: clickbait. Who wants to read about domestic policy and even foreign policy when we have a chance to rant and rave about this guy? Anyway, I like this story a lot more, Christmas decorations at the White House.