President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the backlash over reports that he disclosed highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador, characterizing their Oval Office meeting last week as “very, very successful.”
Answering questions shouted by reporters at a joint appearance with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump applauded the performance of his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, who gave a press briefing addressing the meeting shortly beforehand.
“Our fight is against ISIS, as Gen. McMaster said, I thought he said, and I know he feels that we had actually a great meeting with the foreign ministers,” Trump said. “So we’re going to have a lot of great success over the next coming years and we want to get as many to help fight terrorism as possible. And that’s one of the beautiful things that’s happening with Turkey, the relationship that we have together will be unbeatable.”
The President reportedly shared highly classified intelligence provided by a key U.S. ally related to an Islamic State threat involving laptops on aircraft. The United States was not permitted to disclose the information, according to the Washington Post.
Delusional.
One or two more WaPo and/or NYT bombshells should push this closer to the brink.
He says he’s unfazed but look at the circles under his eyes. He betrayed a partner who supplied important information. The boob blabbed and he is beginning to see the consequences.
This reeks of Kellyanne Conjob.
Of course, now, we’ll be fighting that terrorism without intelligence sharing from our allies.
Because he stabbed them in the back, got their sources killed, and ruined years of painstaking work.
Donald J. Trump is a national security threat.
And in some ways, one of the most dangerous the United States has ever faced.
Russia is already fighting ISIS in Syria. Trump was just showing off like a kid on their first day at a new junior high.
I don’t know what worries me more: him deliberately burning another country’s source to curry favor with people who have the goods on him or him not understanding the nature of what he was giving away because his own briefers have to dumb everything down to the point that he can’t understand the information’s context and significance.