Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) was left flabbergasted by the prospect of giving Donald Trump classified briefings on the campaign trail after the nominee’s comments about Russian hackers.
“How would the CIA and the other intelligence agencies brief this guy? How could they do that? I would suggest to the intelligence agencies, if you’re forced to brief this guy, don’t tell him anything, just fake it, because this man is dangerous,” Reid said in a Wednesday interview with The Huffington Post. “Fake it, pretend you’re doing a briefing, but you can’t give the guy any information.”
In a press conference earlier the same day, Trump suggested that hackers had breached Clinton’s personal email server and urged the Russian government to release the emails, a proposal which Reid condemned in no uncertain terms. “What Trump is talking about is much worse than Watergate,” Reid said. “Absolutely.”
Reid went on to emphasize the connection between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling the GOP nominee “part of a foreign power” after he failed to answer questions about whether Russian business entities are invested in him or his projects. “We knew he liked Putin before this,” Reid said, “but this is quite ridiculous.”
Trump aides and allies scrambled to discount the nominee’s comments as a “joke” or otherwise explain them. A spokesperson for House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) responded by saying that Putin should “stay out” of the election. On the other side of the aisle, former CIA director and Defense secretary Leon Panetta said that Trump’s remarks had “already represented a threat to our national security.”
YES! More please!!! DO NOT LET UP, HARRY…FUCK HIM WITH THIS SANS LUBE…
Edit:
Actually, give him information then drive him fucking crazy with accusations and attacks on his ego. He’ll spill something in public in an attempt to use it to his advantage and find himself prosecuted.
Right?
Paul Ryan: This means Hillary shouldn’t get any intel briefings because we know Putin will get the info.
Anyone know why the candidates will be getting classified briefings already? Why not wait till winner is decided in November?
This is like when Reid went on the Senate floor in 2012 and said about Romney, “The word’s going around that he hasn’t paid any taxes. If he has let him show his tax returns and prove it. But he can’t, because he hasn’t!”
Of course, Harry didn’t say that he was playing a yuuuuge role in putting the word around.
I love this guy!