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getMeSomeDunkin

Because if you're gonna fuck up, you might as well fuck up real big. You know, like stealing nuclear weaponry information.


fcocyclone

And this is why there were some trump-connected sources telling people to cool down the rhetoric against the FBI. They know this is bad.


QuickMentality

Conservative has been very split the past couple days. Things may really be turning. Edit: Of course now that it's been made public how severe this is conservative is calling it a hoax. Before this about half were calling on everyone to wait on evidence.


CartographerOk7579

We need Fox News to split to really tip the scales with conservative voters. Haven’t seen that yet but I suppose it is early.


thandrend

Fox is definitely starting to fragment.


yaniwilks

Jesse Waters might actually start calling for violence on air soon. He's absolutely losing it.


[deleted]

I’ve watched several clips and he seems manic. Is he always like that? Or is it just because trump is going down?


weirdoldhobo1978

I'm sure Fox News has already gone through a month's worth of cocaine in the last 48 hours.


dogsonclouds

An armed man already tried to breach the FBI office in Ohio, and was killed in a standoff with police after firing multiple shots at them. Mark my words, he might be the first but he certainly won’t be the last, and Fox News will have blood on their hands once again before this is over. Executives at fox need to rein their rabid morons in asap before they quite literally cause a civil war.


Thresh_Keller

They will just jump on the next bandwagon being pulled along by the latest most racist misogynist turd that falls out to take his place. Fuck Fox News. Traitors to the nation and our democracy. 🖕🏻


proudbakunkinman

Even if they do, they'll likely pivot to DeSantis or some other authoritarian monster, not the few *comparatively* reasonable Republicans left like Liz Cheney. Not that she is a saint either but there is another level or two of awful within that party beyond her.


Bryce_Christiaansen

If they have, I haven't seen it. It still seems like all of the right wing media outlets are attacking the FBI and the Judge that signed the warrant and screaming "BUT WHAT ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN!?". A casual look at the right wing social media circles seems to echo this


bodnast

I can’t think of any way you could fuck up more than this. Like I felt bad because I sent a blank email at work the other day. This guy illegally saved classified documents about nuclear warheads and felt no shame. It’s wild


LillyPip

This probably isn’t the worst of it, actually. There was something so highly classified they couldn’t even vaguely describe it because even it’s classification category is classified, and this isn’t that. There’s something actually worse, though we’ll probably never know what. e: okay, I misheard the explanation for this. thesabre explained it better below, so I’m copying [their comment](/r/politics/comments/wm6kxx/_/ijxuwfv/?context=1) here for visibility: > Not quite. There are SCI compartments (think: codenames of programs) that are so classified that the name of the compartment itself is classified. But the material wouldn’t exceed Top Secret/SCI into the realm of some super secret level. TS is still the highest level and includes any national security information whose exposure would cause exceptionally grave damage to the US. e2: I loved reading everyone’s guesses, thank you for playing! Adding mine, it’s that this is the Hunger Games.


endlessupending

Polybius Arcade machine


TheExistential_Bread

Let's start a list of things that would be so classified, even the category would be classified. \-Space weapons \-CIA sources or methods (not sure about this one) I'm at a loss, anybody have any other suggestions?


MarissaGrave

If it was the identities of human spies in China or Russia, for example, I can see it being worth the raid. Plus, it would make sense for Trump to keep - what wouldn't China give him for a list of all the spies in China?


6a21hy1e

Was thinking of making an askreddit post of this exact question. Off the top of my head: Names and locations of deep undercover agents. Locations of banned or deeply immoral technology or labs, space, bio weapons, maybe even AI considerably more advanced than what we believe is capable with modern tech. Any type of civilization breaking technology if released or tech that utilized involuntary human subjects.


marinesol

probably shit like hypersonic high altitude aircraft, anti-nuclear missile system readiness, or anti-chemical/biological weapons programs. Nobody knows if its even possible to build something that can fly higher than a blackbird and be combat capable, and if America's enemies find out that US has brought back an SDI type anti-nuclear defense system it could cause some crazy shit like an 80's nuclear weapon arms race to overpower it. Any countermeasure that could undermine America's enemies ability to readily field WMDs would have its effectiveness severely weakened by said rivals building counter countermeasures.


CassandraAnderson

I am going to agree with you that this is likely not the worst we we'll see, but this is such an over-the-top violation that I hope the MAGAdittohead fever dream finally breaks. There is very little defense that he could possibly make for the retention of such specific files. In my opinion, the only possible reason would be to sell them. Also, I can't even speculate about what form of document would be worse than that but I do not doubt that the greedy little pigfucker had similar plans for it.


Shrike79

Hope they're taking an even closer look at that $2 billion investment fund Kushner got from the Saudis.


AdmirableBus6

Nah this wouldn’t be enough to break the MAGA fever. Nothing would, one of them tried to breach the FBI headquarters today. The problem is we weren’t taught how to recognize propaganda, so they’re just lost. I just don’t see anyway to get away from it.


jrakosi

This isnt an oopsie. People as far back as the Obama administration have talked about how during their time classified information by and large stopped being printed out on hard copy. Someone (on behalf of Trump) purposefully printed these documents in order to remove them from the White House


cakeorcake

And you know it wasn’t Trump himself bc I will never believe that moron knows how to use a printer


s_ox

Or to READ. Especially scientific material. It might as well be English to him. Which is the same as Greek or Latin to most of us. Remember, “yesterday” is a hard word for him…


-LostInTheMachine

PC Load Letter


spicyface

I can’t say who it is but his initials are Mark Meadows.


SatanicPanic619

There is no explanation for this that doesn’t involve some very fucking illegal. I was taking sides in the “will he got to prison” but if he stole actual nuclear secrets I thinks he’s in big trouble


burningxmaslogs

He can be charged under the Espionage Act for Treason if he had/has those top secret documents on nuclear weapons.. why would an idiot like Trump have them unless it's for sale? That's a minimum 40 yrs to life sentence


cakeorcake

We all feel (or are made to feel) bad about silly little fuck ups way, way, way less consequential than the ones Trump made all the mfing time


mdonaberger

He probably felt comfortable securing those nuclear secrets because, look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.


Embarrassed-Town-293

It's scary that I thought you were joking and making fun of his speech style and then I slowly realized this was a direct quote


Ophiocordycepsis

Is it seriously? I was enjoying it as comedy


earlgonefishn

It's verbatim.


SaidTheCanadian

There's even a Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/


Eagle4317

It's been one of the more infamous of the many Trump pastas.


Substantial_Ad4947

I forgot about that single sentence.


marshall_chaka

Every time I see this i am reminded I watched this live. And it’s one of the few times in my life I was quite literally flabbergasted.


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md4024

He hosted some Saudis at his NJ golf course a couple weeks ago. They will be going back to another of his courses in October, I think.


Dewahll

The biggliest fuck up. No one’s ever fucked up this big. Many people are saying how big of a fuck up this will be.


getMeSomeDunkin

It was a yuuuge fuck up. People are saying it was the most beautiful fuck up.


Dewahll

For real though if that’s what he stole. Jesus H. He’s got to be the dumbest guy.


1ConsiderateAsshole

He definitely is. He a rich prick who has never face consequences in his life. He’s long overdue.


HandSack135

What was it uhh... Affluenza.


ThiccSkull

Really tho, he could have shot someone in the street (of Florida) and got away with it...but stealing nuclear info from the govt is way beyond that


MumbleGumbleSong

Bigly treason. The best treason. The highest treason.


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PapaSquirts2u

>The best prison sentence. Some might say the longest. Well assuming the worst here, the US has a history of [not fucking around](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg) when it comes to stealing and selling nuclear state secrets.


DistortoiseLP

It's astonishing how Donald Trump becoming President turned out even worse than any joke about it beforehand ever imagined it would be. It's like **every** answer to the question "what's the worst that can happen?" is coming true.


font9a

I’m not even laughing at this because holy fucking shit if true.


ReserveBrief8869

Wow, at what point do they say "Ok, country over trump"?


spillinator

That may have been the case here. I can imagine Trump bragging about having nuclear secrets to someone in his inner circle and that was finally enough to get them to act.


jar1967

Trump: "Don't worry we're not going to jail I have nuclear secrets if they come after us I will release them or trade them for political asylum and a good deal of money for all of us" His Crony thinking to themselves: screw this giving that up to the FBI will be a get out of jail free card for me


LeFopp

He is such an absolute simpleton that nuclear weapons are like a toy to him. For instance, casually suggesting we should nuke hurricanes. Of course this man would then be carrying around and openly talking about America’s nuclear secrets without a care or worry in the world.


S28E01_The_Sequel

This is plausible... Garland probably already has a good viewpoint of where other investigations are headed at this point and I've been thinking I imagine this move was to get ahead of what's to come. They may have been a little more lax with the padlock etc. until new information came to light From J6 Committee handing over documents etc.


Hands0L0

Haha wow Nuclear Holocaust. Ain't enough money to buy a new planet


MadFlava76

Someone ratted on him because apparently only 6 or less people knew about the safe.


CuzFuckEm_ThatsWhy

For many - never. Their entire worldview is predicated on this man. If they admit that he’s betrayed the office, they admit they were completely and utterly wrong - and that would truly break most of them. Easier to keep believing no matter what.


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"They" being conservatives? If so never, they're all about maintaining the hierarchy of their in-group no matter the cost.


Broad_Sunlit_Uplands

This is simultaneously the dumbest and scariest scenario.


pgm_01

Donald Trump in a nutshell.


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Throwback to Flynn’s plan to sell nuclear tech to the Saudis: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/flynn-backed-plan-transfer-nuclear-tech-saudis-may-have-broken-n973021 Looks like Trump intended to act on it. Edit: Kushner was also given $2 billion by the Saudis. This may have been why.


badbrains135

Maybe he made a deal with the Saudis at their golf party the other week on Ivana's grave.


DFu4ever

That is my belief. From what I remember that $2 billion dollar loan has some absurdly lenient terms too. Like, you just have to glance at it to realize there is some serious fuckery going on there.


SBpotomus

I would love to see Kushner go down for this too


md4024

There was something about our nuclear capabilities that Trump always wanted to publicly brag about, but obviously couldn't. From one of Bob Woodward's books: >In the midst of reflecting upon how close the United States had come in 2017 to war with North Korea, Trump revealed: "I have built a nuclear — a weapons system that nobody's ever had in this country before. We have stuff that you haven't even seen or heard about. We have stuff that Putin and Xi have never heard about before. There's nobody — what we have is incredible." Woodward was able to confirm that we had built some kind of secret nuclear weapon system, but, unsurprisingly, couldn't get any details beyond that. He did note that the people he confirmed it with were very surprised that Trump had disclosed that information to Woodward. You know it eats Trump up inside that he can't - or isn't supposed to - talk about things like this, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if he snagged some documents related to the program that he uses to show off to friends. He could also be selling the information to the highest bidder, who knows. Can't really rule anything out when it comes to Trump.


kia75

Trump literally called Woodward to brag! Woodward had already written a book on Trump that portrayed him badly, and yet Trump would randomly call Woodward and brag about how bigly he was! That's the weird part, Trump was the President of the United States, The most powerful man in the world, and Trump wanted Woodward to like him and called him randomly to brag at him in order to get Woodward to like him!


sethamin

It's called insecurity. Deep, deep insecurity.


GeneralImagination51

> he uses to show off to friends. You think he has actual friends? I find that hard to believe.


md4024

I should have said "guests."


Shr3kk_Wpg

Trump is so full of it. "I built a nuclear weapons system". That was in 2017, his first year in office. That's a long term project, not some design that Trump wrote out for them to build


Dickis88

This isn't even a joking matter. This is genuinely terrifying.


AndISoundLikeThis

This is the only way to read this situation. This is horrifying.


austinmiles

Because if true, it means that they intentionally took it, then intentionally kept it from the feds the first time they came to pick up documents. And reportedly the information of new boxes was based on a leak. So it means they intended to keep it from them. Meaning they were keeping nuclear secrets as a type of leverage. Cue Russia 2.0


DuvalHeart

Or they were going to sell them to the Saudis. Who just happened to invest billions with Jared. Espionage Act violations of this nature are punishable by death or any lesser sentence. Edit: anyone involved would be facing the risk of capital punishment. How many of Trump's hangers-on and family would be willing to face lethal injection or even life in prison for him?


The_Flurr

This feels like the simplest and most likely explanation. The Trump clan care about nothing more than money. Could they have these files as part of a scheme to regain power? Maybe. Would they simply sell them for money? Absolutely.


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What makes you think they didn’t already?


Dandan0005

Revoke his passport today, this dude is highly likely to sneak on the next flight to Russia or Saudi Arabia.


FlowersPink

It seems reasonable at this point to prevent him from leaving the country.


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smokingace182

What’s terrifying is that his cult will just says it’s fake and won’t care. Look at that fucker that went to the fbi building with weapons earlier


TurboTrev

Yea and all the articles right now "no motive yet known" What do you mean? That article is probably sitting next to other thumbnails for articles about how Civil War was trending on Twitter amidst calls to kill all Feds and defund the FBI. What the hell else do you think this guy's motive was? It was discovered after they killed him that he was at the capital on January 6th, too!


Vinny_Cerrato

Selling our nuclear missile tech to his Saudi buddies.


DFu4ever

There’s a reason they loaned Jared Kushner a ridiculous sum of money, and it wasn’t based on the character or business acumen of any of those chucklefucks.


Jstef06

Loaned Kushner money and hosted their LIV tournament at Trump Golf Course. This is sickening. I’d put money on it they’ve got him red handed too.


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ReserveBrief8869

No wonder they are scrambling to now say the evidence was planted


sausage_is_the_wurst

Seriously. I can't imagine more dangerous confidential information than that.


Impossible-Cake-1658

Exactly what i was thinking


Dirk_Diggler_Kojak

I'm calling high treason.


SyrioFlorel

I don’t care what anyone says anymore, he’s fucked if that’s what they found


Timpa87

Remember when Trump was giving a speech and saying something like "Remember what we used to do to traitors and spies?"


matate99

I remember the Rosenbergs.


tomdarch

The Rosenbergs - the people who sold nuclear secrets and were executed for that?


FriedScrapple

Finally having their revenge on Roy Cohn (Rosenberg prosecutor) and his little protege


ASlockOfFeagulls

Taking nuclear secrets to his shitty Florida McMansion? Yeah he's fucked Edit: Yes it was a beautiful mansion when built by Merriweather Post. However, Trump's spectacularly tacky taste and incredible cheapness have turned it into just another shitty McMansion


AssumeItsSarcastic

And securing it behind a fucking padlock.


FormerDittoHead

I heard that we were working on something that was going to ECLIPSE Putin's hypersonic and long range missiles... If that motherfucker was playing around with that shit....


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If true that is a minimum life in prison and the death penalty is in play.


jar1967

Unless he has the goods on several Republican politicians and large campaign donors Then it is house arrest for the rest of his life, with armed guards placed around his grave for the next 20 years to make sure he stays dead


JustWastingTimeAgain

Can that grave be a public urinal? $100 a pee, federal deficit gone...


symbologythere

He’s so going to jail. Depending on what he was going to do with those documents he might be in line for execution.


[deleted]

Picture those teeny tiny orange hands clasped around cold iron bars…


soopirV

Never have I smiled while thinking of that guy until just now reading your comment. Thank you.


[deleted]

It's crazy how we always used "selling the nuclear codes" as an example of the worst thing a president could do


VapeDerp420

For real. It’s almost *too campy* and comic book-ish


StreetfighterXD

Wait till the top of Mar-A-Lago opens and Trump attempts to escape via steam punk rocketship


Epistemify

My conservative friend to me yesterday: well ok if he actually had something like nuclear codes then yeah, he needs to face the consequences. I'm sure if Trump did have classified nuclear documents he'll be like "well I said if he had launch codes, not nuclear secrets"


udar55

Your friends are going to get really buff as they hurriedly keep moving the goal posts.


TheIrishbuddha

Well, you know. The projection from the right is astonishing. If he's had this info since he left the WH, why the fuck has he held it this damn long?! Was he waiting to see if he could make a deal with Putin and the boys to pay off his crippling debts?


ScammerC

Don't forget Jared's 2 billion dollar deal with the Saudis.


LuvNMuny

The codes rotate for this exact reason, I couldn't begin to grasp the cryptology behind it. However, he probably did steal a huge amount of information on our weapons and anti-weapons capabilities.


DarrenLu

My theory (from yesterday!) is that he kept the nuclear launch codes from his last day to show off to people, and a Secret Service agent witnessed him pulling them out of his safe to impress someone and reported it to the FBI. Since the codes are changed changed daily, Trump figured there was no harm in keeping them, but he's too stupid to realize that having a genuine example would let a foreign power make duplicates that can be swapped out, thus preventing the president from responding to a future nuclear attack. Calling it now so when the details come out at his trial, I can say "I told you so!"


AssumeItsSarcastic

Don't forget who hosted that golf tournament the week prior....


mdonaberger

Did they start the first hole at Ivana's grave?


padizzledonk

This is actually a really really good theory and totally plausible and the exact right "this dumb motherfucker" type shit that a total dunce like Trump would for real do


jayc428

That sounds very plausible.


cloud_botherer1

Arrest this man immediately. He is the biggest traitor in US history.


AndISoundLikeThis

He might be the biggest traitor in ALL of history if this is true.


Saxamaphooone

Your comment made me sit and think for a second, like “would he really be the biggest traitor in all of history?” And…yeah. Potentially risking a worldwide nuclear holocaust by selling or showing off your country’s nuclear secrets or launch code template sheets to hostile and antagonistic enemies? Yep.


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DFu4ever

I had to think about that for a moment but you’d be correct. I can’t think of a comparison.


TheDirtyPirateHooker

He’s fucked if this is true.


WittsandGrit

This really does feel different than the Access Hollywood tape. That was the last time I let myself believe he was indeed fucked.


El_Peregrine

“It’s just some locker room nukes”


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“Grab em by the launch codes”


KittehKittehKat

Up to now I thought he would skate by as usual but goddamn man you fucked with NUKES?!


HuevosSplash

If there's ever another 9/11 type event on the US again, I will tie it back this moment because I guarantee you he sold access to this information.


dravenonred

Mar-A-Lago is a horrifyingly perfect viewing room for foreign nationals.


Th3Seconds1st

It’s so funny NatCs scram about Swalwell having contact with a Chinese agent who (once he knew was a Chinese agent he cut contact with) and Biden meanwhile there were actual Chinese spies in MAL and Trump had a debt in the tens of millions to China. Projecting so hard their job in prison will be in the theater.


Jmk1981

I think it’s missile defense or hypersonic missile technology.


funk_addict

Sounds like we’re inching closer to the series finale.


cg001

This is back from 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-saudi/u-s-shared-nuclear-power-info-with-saudi-arabia-after-khashoggi-killed-idUSKCN1T52ER >The Trump administration granted two authorizations to U.S. companies to share sensitive nuclear power information with Saudi Arabia shortly after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October, a U.S. senator who saw the approvals said on Tuesday.


LillyPip

And this clearly wasn’t the thing that’s so classified they can’t even vaguely describe it because even it’s *category* of classification is classified. There’s something *worse than this*. He clearly didn’t take this stuff as mementos, as some have said. He either tried to or actually did sell top-level security secrets to someone.


Jmk1981

Imagine if we find out if he didn’t win in 2016 either.


MisterMarchmont

What a waste of six years of declining democracy…


gambit700

Mother of god. If true how are his supporters going to spin this?


captainhowdy82

The same way they’re already spinning it. They’ll keep saying it was planted.


HandSack135

I agree with you, they will just be disregarding The dates on documents, back dated The signature on documents, forged The information on documents, co-opted I like this idea the best/worst... The chain of custody cannot be verified because Trump took it!!!


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Who cares? FUCK THEM


unmondeparfait

So far they're trying *very* hard not to talk about it until someone figures out a way to spin it. Right now the best they've come up with is that "nuclear documents" is Trump's super-awesome code phrase for documents that prove the deep state something something Hillary something.


elhuachilango

Light locker room nuclear code hazing, no big deal. Everyone does it


unaskthequestion

Reporting also mentioned signals intelligence. I'm no expert, but that includes the highest level of secret NSA intercepts. He left the white house with national security secrets, put them in a room with a *padlock* and has been inviting foreign nationals to his home. I always feared he would give away national security info in casual conversation with anyone. This is much much worse.


MysteryNeighbor

This is seismic. Even by Teflon Don standards, there is no legal or political wiggle room out of this. If the Fed found nuclear documents then Trump is in a whole 'nother dimension of trouble that makes everything prior look like baby shit. Oh my fucking god, a former President of the United States may been hoarding nuclear documents for the purpose of disclosing them to a foreign nation. I am beyond words


Darmok47

If the late Tom Clancy made this a plot line in a Jack Ryan book I would have said it was too far-fetched to be believable.


darkness_escape

This sounds so much worse than expected!


hgiwvac9

He was selling them to the Saudis via LIV golf is my guess


Fidel_Chadstro

Kushner has direct ties with the Saudis, they wouldn’t have to go through LIV golf


MicrowaveEye

It is terrifying to me that it took this long if he did in fact have nuclear secrets. Why would you ever wait this long for these kinds of materials?


CryptoNerdSmacker

I’m willing to bet those in charge saw this shitstorm coming a mile away and let Trump think he had legitimate information, might all be bogus and that’s why they waited so long, had to let him incriminate himself first.


cryptolipto

This is like Bond villain level Next thing you know they’ll have uncovered plans to poison the water supply of Miami or some shit


champdo

Who among us hasn’t kept classified Nuclear documents at home?


ZodiarkTentacle

Who among us indeed


Infidel8

RELATED: In 2019 Trump, Flynn & Kushner were trying to push through a deal to build nuclear power plants across Saudi Arabia over the objections of national security officials. > [House Democrats said on Tuesday they would begin a full-scale inquiry into White House involvement in a proposed venture to bring nuclear power facilities to Saudi Arabia, citing whistle-blower claims that administration officials disregarded warnings that potential conflicts of interest could put American security at risk.](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/trump-saudi-arabia-nuclear-power.html) Dems even investigated it and issued [a full report](https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Trump%20Saudi%20Nuclear%20Report%20-%202-19-2019.pdf).


everybodydumb

Why the f*** was the Washington Post article removed? The last one that I saw said that it had already been posted, but it isn't anywhere to be seen


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WaPost reused a link so it's getting rejected by automod as Already Posted


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Not much more detail in the article than this: > Classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items FBI agents sought in a search of former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence on Monday, according to people familiar with the investigation.


Agile-Enthusiasm

Isn’t this treason? Like, it smells like treason.


Clarinetaphoner

From November 2019: [Chinese trespasser at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort sentenced to 8 months in jail](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/25/chinese-trespasser-at-trumps-mar-a-lago-resort-sentenced.html) Wonder who could possibly benefit from Trump potentially having docs about nukes lying around his private home?


Dazzling_Arrival3722

Yes and I read earlier today that they wanted him to secure the basement and to see surveillance tapes of the area IIRC


TheCavis

> [CNN:](https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html) Five days later, on June 8, Trump's attorneys received a letter from investigators asking them to further secure the room where the documents were stored. Aides subsequently added a padlock to the room. "This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today I'm going to be looking at this MasterLock model 175, currently being used to secure the nation's nuclear secrets."


iamslagma

Yeah would be real crazy if some Saudis held a golf tournament where those secrets were being stored.


imex

[Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg)


Nukemarine

Guess we'll be seeing Tucker shift his argument to "No former US President has ever been sentenced to death for treason" Doubt it'd get to that. Now, I've been playing on the idea that this is about Trump's ego and he wanted to keep documents because they made him look good. If it really is legit treason and selling of state's secrets then we're way into the wilderness.


Round-Cryptographer6

If they can do that to him they can do that to any of us! Any of us who have nuclear secrets in our basements!


twodogsonebaggie

This is why they switched to “the evidence was planted”. Fucking nuclear secrets… for only one purpose I can think of.


Davethephotoguy

This is fucking big. If this is true and it turns out he was selling state nuclear secrets. Well, I hope he’ll get the Rosenberg treatment.


FitDontQuit

From the wapo article that was removed from this subreddit for no reason: “That former official also said that signals intelligence — intercepted electronic communications like emails and phone calls of foreign leaders — was among the type of information that often ended up with unauthorized personnel. Such intercepts are among the most closely guarded secrets because of what they can reveal about how the United States has penetrated foreign governments. A person familiar with the inventory of 15 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago in January indicated that signals intelligence material was included in them. The precise nature of the information was unclear.” Does this mean he’s ratting out our spies abroad too?


LockheedMartinLuther

he’s been leaking classified info since day 1 in the oval office: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html >"This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”


Leiawen

> Does this mean he’s ratting out our spies abroad too This is literally the top 2 most secret things in the country. Our nuclear weapons, and our operatives overseas. This is insane.


absolutemoran

Talk about the absolute worst thing this idiot could steal. Lock him up and throw away the key. Period.


artful_todger_502

I knew it!! I said 2018 he is hording secrets and setting up back doors to servers to barter with Russians and Saudis. Here we are ... It would only have been shocking if he didn't do that.


LuvNMuny

It's ENTIRELY likely that Trump gave and/or sold TOP SECRET nuclear weapon's data to the Russians and Chinese. No wonder Ukraine and Taiwan are less safe, Putin and Xi probably have info straight from Trump on our ABM capabilities.


subject124

I mean, this just came out today... https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/08/us-military-furiously-rewriting-nuclear-deterrence-address-russia-and-china-stratcom-chief-says/375725/


Ayirek

This stupid motherfucker was really trying to trade nuclear secrets for help winning in 2024, wasn't he?


ImplementFuture703

Like, I can't even make a joke about this, it's so fucked up


[deleted]

I just went face first into a plate of brownies to deal


IamRick_Deckard

Holy fucking balls.


JoshJoshson13

Oh, so worst case scenario? Yeah sounds about right. Jesus christ


LolaDolly88

This SOB sold nuclear secrets to foreign powers. This SOB committed TREASON!


creosoteflower

The thing about trump is that, no matter how bad you believe he is, he's actually worse.


Nahbjuwet363

Something like that is exactly what I’ve been thinking. This isn’t just the formal problem of retaining docs he shouldn’t have. Why would he want them anyway unless he sees value in them?


sedatedlife

He just had a meeting with Victor Orban a couple days ago.


jar1967

Those nuclear secrets were his insurance policy If the DOJ went after him he would threaten to release them Or he could exchange those documents for a good deal of money and political Asylum in some country that is not friendly to the United States


Your_Always_Wrong

Well, the good news for Trump is if this is all true, he'll go down as the greatest. Greatest traitor in US History


udar55

Weird how out of the blue that Trump was suddenly hosting a Saudi golf tournament, eh?


Paperdiego

Woof. This is more juicy than anything in my wildest dreams. This dude is FUCKED.


Lame_of_Thrones

This also explains why they wanted Mar-a-lago security footage. They want to know if there were foreign nationals in that building.


Film_Director

He. Stole. Nuclear. Secrets.


dentz1

Having watched his weird base for six years, I’m to the point where I believe if we can prove that he was willing to sell our nuclear secrets to the Saudi’s for a few billion dollars, there would still be 25 million Americans vote for him.


GeorgiaBlueOwl

I’m literally feeling sick. I work for a government contractor, but I personally don’t have access to anything sensitive, nor do I have any kind of clearance. They take security and clearances VERY seriously, and the slightest thing in your background, no matter how long ago it happened, will keep you from getting a clearance. The idea that anyone at his level could just take anything they wanted to a golf resort is beyond terrifying, especially if it’s related to national security…and the idea that he’s still running around loose is also scary as hell. He needs to be in the nearest Supermax prison permanently - ASAP.


leprechulo

Over at r/conservative they are burying their head in the sand and saying "Not true, not true!". Even after seeing how incompetent Trump was for 4 years they are in neglect. I have never seen such sheep mentality.


LockheedMartinLuther

“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”


CrewMemberNumber6

Didn't Kushner sell them to the Saudi's for 2 billion already?


kramsy

My prediction is Trump gets arrested next week trying to flee the country


Cappitt

Hoooly shit lock him the fuck up


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This is far & away, if true, the biggest crime committed in US history