Republicans Compromising National Security
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Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta and Mar-a-lago manager Brian Butler to transfer up to 15 boxes of likely classified information Trump illegally had in his possession to his residence in New Jersey at the very time representatives from the DOJ were meeting with his lawyers to get back the documents he illegally retained12 Mar 2024Former Mas-a-Lago manager Brian Butler
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Shared top-secret and highly sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines including the number of nuclear warheads they can carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected with Australian billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member Anthony Pratt who went on to share what Trump told him with at least 45 other people including foreign officials, his employees and journalists over a year after he left the Presidency05 Oct 2023According to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposes26 Sep 2023According to excerpts from a book by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
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Compromised classified information on notecards used to brief him during phone calls with international leaders by using the backs to write every day to-do lists to his personal assistant who was uncleared to access classified information and, unaware, also kept them in her unsecured office in Mar-a-Lago until eventually noticing classified markings and alerting the FBIStaff Notes: How astoundingly lazy and incompetent can someone be at the same time? He couldn't be bothered to have his assistant order blank cards to use instead of ones with classified info carelessly lying around his office?18 Sep 2023According to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Ordered a Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession27 Jul 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Showed and discussed a top-secret military map that he illegally retained when he left the White House which laid out a "plan of attack" against Iran to a writer, publisher and two staffers who did not have security clearances at an insecure location at his Bedminster golf club09 Jun 2023According to can audio recording during which he admitted on tape that the map was "highly confidential" and that he "could have declassified" it when he was President but "now I can't"
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Showed a classified map detailing a secret military operation he illegally retained when he left the White House to a staffer of his PAC after admitting that he shouldn't be showing it to anyone and telling the staffer not to get "too close" to it while meeting with him at his Bedminster golf club09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Walt Nauta [Trump "Bodyman"]Hid boxes filled with classified and highly sensitive government documents after his boss Donald Trump was subpoenaed for them which were later found when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago and then lied to federal agents when they questioned him about it09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Stored top-secret and classified documents he illegally took with him to Mar-a-Lago at the conclusion of his term in his unsecured office, bathroom, bedroom, ballroom and storage room in plain view for tens of thousands of guests and potential US adversaries to seeStaff Notes: Bedroom's and bathroom's almost always lock from the inside, which means any classified documents stored in these areas could have been easily accessible to any number of people who had access to them09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House on Trump's orders and was seen putting them in the trunk of his car late at night on the final evening of his presidency08 Jun 2023According to three former top aides to Meadows reported on by Murray Waas in an exclusive report published on Substack
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Discussed classified and sensitive information with Donald Trump on speakerphone while his aide could hear and gave the same aide unfettered access to his email accounts that also contained confidential and highly sensitive information15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Intentionally lied to his own attorneys about his knowledge of any classified documents in his possession which resulted in his lawyer unwittingly submitting a false sworn certification of that fact to federal investigators22 Mar 2023According to multiple sources and reported on by multiple major outlets
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Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R-CA]Gave Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of January 6 insurrection footage captured by surveillance cameras throughout the Capitol complex despite the very real possibility that sensitive information pertaining to the security of the Capitol could be made publicStaff Notes: This was especially egregious for many reasons!22 Feb 2023According to an exclusive report by Axios
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Granted Melania Trump access to the White House Situation Room during a highly secretive US military raid targeting an ISIS leader in a clear breach of rules prohibiting people who lack the proper security clearance from entering the room07 Feb 2023According to former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller
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Shared an image taken from a highly secretive spy satellite that could have helped adversaries better understand US spy capabilities to his Twitter followers18 Nov 2022According to a declassified document obtained by NPR
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Sen. Marco Rubio [R-FL]Broke security protocols by sharing live images of a briefing U.S. Representatives & Senators had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy despite being asked not to share any posts or images until the meeting had concluded05 Mar 2022According to reporting by NBC News & other media outlets
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Discussed highly sensitive and classified intelligence with Russia's Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the US that worried US officials so much they secretly extracted one of its most senior covert intelligence assets inside of Russia out of fear for their safety09 Sep 2019According to multiple top officials in the Trump Administration and first reported on by CNN
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Ordered that his son-in-law Jared Kushner receive a top-secret security clearance over the objection of national security and intelligence officials who recommended he be denied clearance due to his business ties in foreign countries28 Feb 2019According to an investigative report by The New York Times who
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Confiscated the notes taken by a staffer who interpreted a meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin and ordered them to not divulge details of the conversation even to senior members in his Administration, which former deputy secretary of state Strobe Tallbott said gave Putin "much more scope to manipulate Trump" because senior Administration officials are left in the dark13 Jan 2019According to current and former officials and reported on by The Washington Post
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Used an unsecured private cell phone to speak with friends and acquaintances even after repeated warnings from US intelligence officials that Chinese and Russian spies were listening in on his calls24 Oct 2018According to both current and former US officials and reported on by The New York Times
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Shared highly classified information with Russia's Foreign Minister given by Israel in confidence about an undercover mission to penetrate ISIS fighters developing undetectable bombs of which a retired former intelligence officer noted how damaging this was in that ally countries would now "think twice before sharing sensitive information" with the USA because Trump cannot be trusted to keep the information secure22 Nov 2017According to multiple Administration officials and reported on my numerous media outlets
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John Kelly [W.H. Chief of Staff]Failed to take appropriate security precautions to keep his personal devices secure during his time at Homeland Security and later as Trump's Chief-of-Staff, potentially exposing his private conversations to US adversaries06 Oct 2017According to a report by Politico
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Divulged the existence of a secret CIA program that armed and trained fighters aiming to topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from power on his Twitter account25 Jul 2017According to a Tweet he posted on his official account