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Morning Joe: 'Desperate' Trump Might Sell Secrets; Sic FBI on Him?
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/30/2020 11:18:02 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

For the liberal media, it's not enough to ensure that President Trump leaves office. They also want to cast the gravest kind of doubts about him, literally suggesting that he could be a bought-and-paid-for spy for foreign adversaries!

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and NBC News national security correspondent Ken Dilanian made these accusations:

"National security sources say . . . Donald Trump fits the profile of a classic counter-intelligence risk."

A former Bush official says "Donald Trump may well sell secrets . . . some foreign country will put Trump on retainer."

And in the most extreme statement of all, Dilanian floated this scenario:

if Joe Biden assigns an FBI counter-intelligence team to monitor Donald Trump, imagine that how would that would go over. That might be the right move in this situation!

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To: Chaguito
Joe’s battling it out with Keith Olbermann for the world title.

That's like competing in a beauty contest where the judges declare "nobody won."

When Olbermann threatened all Trump supporters with retribution after the election he edged out Scarborough but Joe is straining to catch up. Sick stuff.

21 posted on 11/30/2020 11:47:18 AM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And NO ONE in the MSM will say that these wild, anonymous accusations were made “without evidence.”


22 posted on 11/30/2020 11:47:29 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What secrets?
Dementia Joe and Hunter have already sold all US secrets to the Chinese, long ago.


23 posted on 11/30/2020 11:47:30 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Clearly, TDS is a real thing...because these people are completely deranged.

Yeah, a guy worth billions is going to sell secrets. Yeah, sure. On top of the fact that said guy is about 1000x more patriotic than the idiots claiming this.


24 posted on 11/30/2020 11:49:27 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The FBI does not have that authority. And Trump can declassify anything he wants and I mean anything. He is the final, unlimited, unquestioned final classifying authority.


25 posted on 11/30/2020 11:49:32 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

MSNBC
Morning Joe
11/30/20
6:56 am ET

Joe Scarborough Ken Dilanian MSNBC Morning Joe 11-30-20JOE SCARBOROUGH: With us now, state attorney for Palm Beach county, Dave Aronberg, and also NBC News correspondent covering national security and intelligence, Ken Dilanian. And Ken’s latest piece is titled, “When he leaves office, can ex-President Trump be trusted with America’s national security secrets?”

. . .

It seems the only thing more dangerous than this president in office with classified secrets, but also maybe even more dangerous when he leaves office. And he contains classified information, a wealth of classified information, that he can either pass on to other people, sell to other people, trade to other people. It certainly is going to make things more difficult for the intel community, isn’t it?

KEN DILANIAN: It sure is, Joe. And what my national security sources say about this is that, look, Donald Trump fits the profile of a classic counter-intelligence risk. He’s deeply in debt, and he’s mad at the US government, particularly the intelligence community.

And so, you have people like former Bush administration official Jack Goldsmith openly speculating that Donald Trump may well sell secrets. Goldsmith told he he’s worried that some foreign country will put Trump on retainer to try to get the information in his head. Because as we know from the New York Times reporting, Donald Trump is more than $400 million in debt, he’s personally guaranteed that debt, and that debt is held by a foreign bank with ties to Russian oligarchs.

. . .

Let’s stipulate that there’s really nothing we can do about the information that’s in Donald Trump’s head. But what my sources are saying is that he should not be afforded the traditional courtesy of classified briefings once he leaves office . . . He may never ask for these briefings, but if he does, Joe Biden’s going to have a decision to make, Joe.

. . .

SCARBOROUGH: It may not be as simple as him going on retainer for another country. This is a guy who’s been desperate to get his company into Russia, desperate to get his company into China, desperate to build towers across the world. Who knows — I think it would be reasonable and rational for intel — the intel community to be concerned that this guy could trade information through a third party to be able to get — start building a tower in a country that wants, desperately needs information from the United States that they can’t get. Except they could get it from a former president. So what in the world could be done?

DILANIAN: Well, I’m not sure what could be done. I mean, if Joe Biden assigns an FBI counter-intelligence team to monitor Donald Trump, imagine that how would that would go over. That might be the right move in this situation!


26 posted on 11/30/2020 11:50:27 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Joe needs a new jacket.


27 posted on 11/30/2020 11:52:26 AM PST by McGruff (We will not go quietly into the night. We will not surrender without a fight!)
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Shmoe is a Comcast thug.


28 posted on 11/30/2020 11:52:39 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

this Morning Joe character has made a career out of broadcasting more and more insane remarks with each and every passing day

he gets paid really a lot too
$$$$$$$$$

where was my high school counselor on this? she never told me about this super rich and easy career path!


29 posted on 11/30/2020 12:00:05 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

These people are on drugs.


30 posted on 11/30/2020 12:01:21 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Clinton “lost” the Los Alamos hard drives with nuclear weapon designs. O-butt-head gave the chicoms orbital launch capability via Space Systems/Loral.


31 posted on 11/30/2020 12:01:22 PM PST by caprock (from the flats of SE New Mexico)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

President Dr. Trump is like the character ,Snowball, in Animal Farm. EVERYthing gets blamed on him after he tries to expose that the pigs are in cahoots with the Farmers. Even after Snowball mysteriously disappears, the pigs blame events on him. And most of the animals are gullible enough to believe them. Stupid animals.


32 posted on 11/30/2020 12:07:31 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Joe, the national security risk is the one that just stole the election.


33 posted on 11/30/2020 12:08:18 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe and the rest of the crew might want to learn from history what happens when the Communists take over. All the turncoats are eliminated simply because they could turn again.


34 posted on 11/30/2020 12:15:12 PM PST by OpusatFR
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mess with the bull and you get the horns. Just saying.


35 posted on 11/30/2020 12:15:13 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joey is mental and just makes crap up to bitch about.


36 posted on 11/30/2020 12:15:43 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: TexasGunLover

Oh, he is much less of a risk, especially when you consider that Obama appointed a communist as head of the CIA (Brenan)


37 posted on 11/30/2020 1:36:26 PM PST by falcon99 (qu)
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