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In the summer of 2019, only hours after an Iranian rocket accidentally exploded at one of Iran's own launch sites, senior U.S. officials met with then-president Donald Trump and shared a sharply detailed, highly classified image of the blast's catastrophic aftermath.
The image was captured by a U.S. satellite whose true capabilities were a tightly guarded secret. But Trump wanted to share it with the world -- he thought it was especially "sexy" because it was marked classified, one of his former advisers later recalled to special counsel Jack Smith's investigators, according to sources familiar with the former adviser's statements.
Worried that the image becoming public could hurt national security efforts, intelligence officials urged Trump to hold off until more knowledgeable experts were able to weigh in, the sources said. But less than an hour later, while at least one of those intelligence officials was in another building scrambling to get more information, Trump posted the image to Twitter.
"It was so upsetting, and people were really angry," one of Trump's former advisers told investigators, sources said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/appalled-witnesses-told-special-counsel-205822504.html
Johonny
(20,889 posts)He simply is not qualified and damaged the nation the first time.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)A deeply stupid person who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. His handling of the Covid crisis should have DQ'd him from ever running again.
unblock
(52,329 posts)the specific example of his handling of the covid crisis was an example of his pure evil, not his stupidity.
he redirected critical resources away from blue states because he is evil, not because of his stupidity.
he became an anti-masker because he heard that black people were dying disproportionately (because black people have disproportionately adverse outcomes throughout our health system because that's how health care is distributed in our ridiculous system).
he absolutely knew his actions and inactions would kill far more americans than needed to die, but he was happy with that because of that statistical outcome.
note, of course, more white people died than black people, in raw numbers simply because there are more white people, even if they didn't die at the same rate.
pure
fucking
evil
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)Early data on Covid showed it starting in heavily democratic population centers. No reason not to let nature kill off those voters - this was an election year and you know that this calculus was baked into Trump's early efforts on containing it..
lostnfound
(16,191 posts)Vlad got all that Donald could give him
winstars
(4,220 posts)GOTV 2024