President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine warned in an interview that Russian influence had pierced the American political system and rejected the idea, backed by allies of Donald Trump, that Ukraine could swiftly end the war just by making massive territorial concessions.
But Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he had privately urged Trump through intermediaries to travel to Ukraine and that Trump had expressed interest but had not yet committed to making a trip. Zelenskyy said he was open to hearing Trump's proposals for the war, while making clear he was highly skeptical.
@#3 ... Trump will blab everything he sees to putin. ...
Is Donald Trump an intelligence threat? (March 2024)
theweek.com
... Here's a paradox: Donald Trump faces trial for mishandling national secrets. But as the GOP's presidential nominee, he will be eligible for regular intelligence briefings by the federal government in the months leading up to November's election. The Biden administration is sticking with that "normally humdrum" tradition, Politico said, even though the briefings are "fraught with unusual risk this year due to the pending court case." Said one former intelligence official: "I'd be afraid about giving him stuff."
It's not just his history of cavalier treatment of classified docs, The Guardian said. Trump's "bromance" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin also raises concerns in the intelligence community. "I think Trump and Putin are natural bedfellows," said Douglas London, a retired CIA operations officer. That is why some Democrats are sounding the alarm. "There is literally nothing about Trump that suggests he would put our country's interests ahead of his own interests under almost any circumstances," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). ...
I still wonder what happened to the contents of those empty classified folders that were found at Mar-A-Lago.
Trump's Hollow Empty Folders' Defense
www.factcheck.org
... Former President Donald Trump's latest defense for having classified documents found by FBI agents at his Mar-a-Lago home is that many of them were simply "empty folders" stamped "classified" on the outside that Trump kept as mementos. The FBI says it did find dozens of empty folders, but it also found 103 classified documents. ...
It's true that in a court-approved search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, FBI agents seized several dozen empty folders marked as having once contained "classified" material. According to an inventory of items the FBI seized that day, which the Department of Justice released on Sept. 2, there were 48 "empty" folders marked as having once contained "classified" material, including 43 from Trump's office. The search also turned up 42 empty folders marked as "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide," including 28 in Trump's office. ...
So where are the contents of those empty folders?
Or, maybe, a better question might be, to whom were those contents sold, and for what in return?
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