Posted on 07/13/2021 12:17:12 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Washington (CNN)Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker in May of that year had committed treason and should be executed for sharing details about the episode with members of the press, according to excerpts of a new book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender.
Trump, along with then-first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, were all taken to the underground bunker for a period of time during the protests spurred by the police killing of George Floyd as protesters gathered outside the building. Bender writes in the book, titled "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, that Trump, in the days following his time in the bunker, held a tense meeting with top military, law enforcement and West Wing advisers, in which he aired grievances over the leak.
"Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the most upset some aides had ever seen the president," Bender writes.
'Whoever did that, they should be charged with treason!' Trump yelled. 'They should be executed!'" the book reads.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
We all knew this would happen.
Every government employee working in Washington DC should be suspected of being corrupted by ideology and the deep state.
Trump still sells, and the media still fear his triumphant return to the WH.
Never mind the phony subtitle “The Inside Story of How Trump Lost” . . .
leakers should be prosecuted, but they never are.
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What is missed here is that this isn’t about politics as usual. This isn’t some deep stater leaking to the WaPo about a breaking at a hotel somewhere. Divulging that the president has a bunker at personal and national security implications, and I’d be pissed too. They only did it because of TDS, and you know damned well there’d be no leak if this were on Biden, and if there was a leak there’d be actual hell to pay
If true I agree with Trump.
Fake but accurate.
“I’ve often wondered if that decision might have been made with the very intention of embarrassing President Trump.”
Of course I don’t know the answer but I will say this. Had Trump outright refused to go the scummedia would have whined about him ignoring his expert security and endangering the Nation by doing so.
some antsy traitors trying to get out in front of what’s coming....
>>>the police killing of George Floyd<<<
When a guy has a lethal amount of fentanyl in his system and dies, it wasn’t the police that killed him.
>>>Some leaker is probably constructing a LEGO set of the secret bunker<<<
Hey, that’s the first thing I did. Went right to Amazon to find my LEGO set of the event.
Shit load of people in GOBMENT should be executed.....
Treason is defined in the Constitution. What happened doesn’t even come close.
Aren’t people used to Trump’s over the top hyperbole? It’s the same over the top Bullshit everyone uses these days. Aren’t people tired of this crap?
Not just from Trump— but from the media, the left, and social media? The outrage over being outraged is simply tiresome.
I'm pretty tired of seeing these convicted of really bad shit...going on living.
That may be unchristian of me...but tell that to the people these folks raped and killed.
I'm tired of it.........
Agree !
It soon devolves into a contest.
Gotta increase the number of Trump headlines, readership is down don’t cha know
"Treason" is the new "racism" in that everyone has their own definition of what it constitutes it. And when there are so many different definitions of it nobody seems sure exactly what it is and it loses all meaning.
What Vermont Lt said checks out as accurate. So I retract my hasty use of “treason”. That does not mean the leaker is not culpable under another charge.
Mega dittos ping!
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