Does Trump HAS to have access to national security papers?
I've heard that, once both parties confirm their nominees, they automatically are briefed.
Why not wait until after the elections? Except for 2000 when the results dragged for a month, the winner will have more than two months before inauguration.
I really think that this year there should be an exception to the rule and not give any information to Trump. OK, don't give any information to Hillary, either. Wait until after the elections.
The other day, on Chris Matthews, I think, there was so much talk about how national security experts expressed concerns about Trump access to the nuclear button, that, I could not help it, the word that came to my mind was: coup. That I was hoping that if - can still happen - Trump is the president, that if he does want to play nukes, that top military would stop him, perhaps even remove him from office.
Then someone told a story from Nixon's last days, when he was supposedly talking to portraits in the White House. That both the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State - do not remember who they were - quietly told the military that if Nixon was going nuclear, that the command would have to be by passed to them.
OK, I had a sigh of relief. I suppose this way would be better than a military coup. Still frightening.
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Trump will probably make Ivanka the Secretary of State and Donald, Jr. the Secretary of Defense.
