Donald Trump was so “mind-numbingly incompetent” about defending categorised info that White House staffers had been “legitimately scared” about ever turning it over to him, a former Trump administration official stated on MSNBC’s “Deadline White House” Friday.
“It’s not simply that he criticized [Hillary] Clinton after which did one thing related. He did one thing vastly worse on a number of events, a lot in order that we had been scared — legitimately scared — to take delicate categorised info into the Oval Office and inform the president of the United States about it,” stated Miles Taylor, who served as chief of workers to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. (Watch the total interview above.)
“That’s how dangerous it was,” he stated. “We would speak about it earlier than we might go in once we acquired sure briefs — ‘Can we speak to the president about this?’ — as a result of there was a fear he would leak info to the general public, to international adversaries.”
At one level, as Trump sat amongst a bunch of reporters, “he had categorised info on his desk, and he grabbed it and held it up and waved it within the air to brag about how he will get actually necessary info,” Taylor recalled. “I imply, our jaws hit the ground.”
There was additionally a photographer within the room on the time, stated Taylor. Fortunately, the journalists “didn’t seize the extremely delicate categorised info that Donald Trump grabbed together with his fist and waved within the air. But that’s how reckless this man was with that sort of knowledge,” he added.
Taylor painted the horrifying image after he was requested how Trump’s therapy of necessary info in comparison with Clinton’s. Trump viciously attacked Clinton throughout his first marketing campaign for president for utilizing a personal e-mail server for work whereas she was secretary of state. Her conduct was so egregious, an outraged Trump claimed, that she should have been “locked up.” She was cleared of any wrongdoing.
Trump repeatedly ripped up paperwork whereas he was within the Oval Office in obvious brazen violation of the Presidential Records Act requiring that they be saved, The Washington Post reported. He additionally reportedly absconded with a number of containers of paperwork — together with info marked “categorised” — when he left the White House.
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