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Jeff Tiedrich @ ItsJeffTiedrich
Lavrov: "President Trump, is gift for you. is commemorative pen"
Trump: "thank you, thank you. what a tremendous gift. just tremendous"
Lavrov: "please to speak louder into pen"
11:09 AM - Dec 10, 2019
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,806 posts)Nitram
(22,845 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)Trump intentionally uses an insecure phone.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)to educate him etc., tell him stuff, he ignores all, and goes about it all alone w/o benefit of any knowledge of anything as usual. So, even if the Russians, Chinese, whomever attempted to spy on rump, I'd say 'good luck in gaining any meaningful information'.
We all know that rump is so into himself that a spy would probably end up with a recording full of nonsense mutterings about how manly he is etc., which of course is totally gross and totally wrong.
NJCher
(35,706 posts)Still, he might pick up enough to drop a clue or two. Remember this last Sept. when they extracted a source who for decades had been telling the CIA what was going on with Putin? I think Rachel put it this way--the source was close enough to see documents on Putin's desk. Then after Trump blabbed his fool head off to the Russians a day after the Mueller report was released, the CIA decided to remove the source (the article surmises it could have been for any number of reasons, however). Quote from NY Times:
We have a president who, unlike any other president in modern history, is willing to use sensitive, classified intelligence however he sees fit, said Steven L. Hall, a former C.I.A. official who led the agencys Russia operations. He does it in front of our adversaries. He does it by tweet. We are in uncharted waters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/cia-informant-russia.html
The article states that info on this source was not even included in Obama's daily briefings--any reference to him was sent to Obama in print in an envelope, hand delivered.
But your point is well taken. By the time Trump filters the information, it probably comes out like something Forrest Gump would say. "Stupid is as stupid does."
IronLionZion
(45,494 posts)and openly tells it to media and anyone else who is nearby.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)CD with commands for the feeble one from his master?
IcyPeas
(21,899 posts)ALBliberal
(2,344 posts)dchill
(38,516 posts)Why does that ring a bell?
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)MontanaMama
(23,334 posts)wnylib
(21,557 posts)Russian aid to identify the whistleblower.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)more likely they were just issuing Trump's marching orders.