Donald Trump, in one of his many convoluted explanations for his desire to maintain control of classified materials, said that he secretly “declassified them all as soon as he moved them to his residence.” He claimed it was a standing order that he obviously never gave to anyone. It was his secret.
Trump's "standing order" was a better-kept secret than those marked Top Secret-SCI and stored just feet from where the fake Rothschild heiress, Inna Yashchyshyn, fooled Trump and the Secret Service on the grounds of Mar a Lago. Only a padlock protected our top secrets from the likes of Yujing Zhang, a 33-year-old Shanghai "business consultant," who in 2019 managed to make it past at least five Secret Service agents and into the main reception area of Mar-a-Lago with a bag full of electronics.
I am reminded of “double-secret-probation” as described by Dean Wormer of the fictional Faber College from the movie Animal House. Unbeknownst to Delta Tau Chi, the entire fraternity was secretly placed at risk of expulsion. Dean Wormer then used their failing GPAs to shut down their frat house to hilarious consequences. In the scary closing sequence, it is predicted that the crazy Bluto eventually becomes Senator John Blutarsky. Not much of a stretch of the imagination these days.
How would Trump feel if he found out that President Biden secretly “reclassified” all records that Trump had changed and that they were all back to their original classifications the moment Biden was sworn in? Both the secret declassification and the secret reclassification are ludicrous scenarios, but we now live in a time when the ridiculous and ludicrous are not only commonplace but accepted behavior.
That Donald J. Trump was careless with our national secrets is now common knowledge, even among his cult followers. Whether or not this carelessness rises to the level of treason will be a matter for the courts and those with access to what was in those documents. The contents might give insight into Trump’s motives for virtually stealing our national secrets and acting as if they were his personal property.
Motive is critical in matters of treason. Even if his actions don’t rise to the level of treason, they clearly show that the man is too careless and dangerous to ever again be entrusted with any position that provides access to our nation's secrets. This is information that, if divulged, could place our nation and the lives of those who perhaps risked theirs to gather that information, in mortal danger.
Even the Mr. Magoo’s of the GOP should clearly see that Donald Trump is a danger to this nation. Party loyalty is one thing, but you all pledged allegiance to the United States, not Donald Trump. It’s time to set some priorities. If you are the patriots you claim to be, then it’s time to put your actions where only words have gone before. There will be no hilarious consequences if Trump's Animal House is allowed to continue.
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