how is this fucking fuck not already in prison

this motor-mouth moron divulged some of our nation’s most sensitive secrets to some complete rando.

Reality Winner walked off with one classified document. just one. she was arrested, jailed, denied bail, convicted and swiftly sentenced to five years in prison. no one asked her nicely to pretty please just give the document back. there were no negotiations.

one document. prison.

Jack Teixeira took dozens of classified documents home and put them on a server in order to impress his dipshit gamer friends. he was arrested, denied bail, and is currently sitting in prison, awaiting trial. again, there were no negotiations.

action, consequence.

Little Donny Fuckface took thousands of classified documents, hid them, pawed through them, denied he had them, claimed they belonged to him, said he’d already given them back, moved them, ignored a subpoena asking him nicely to return them, moved them again, instructed his lawyers and assistants to lie to the feds about them, kept them on his desk, wrote to-do lists on them, stashed them in the unspeakably tacky shitter of his vermin-infested Florida golf motel, took them with him when he traveled, and waved them in the faces of randos at his ratty New Jersey ex-wife cemetery.

right now, he is free on his own recognizance and able to fly around the country and stoke his deranged worshipers into a rabid frenzy.

he even has his own personal hand-picked judge who is doing everything within her power to derail his trial and help him avoid consequences.

and as batshit insane as all of that sounds, this week we learned about something that makes this whole sordid story a thousand times worse:

Donald Trump blabbed nuclear secrets to one of his cronies.

Months after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago Club — an Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists, according to sources familiar with the matter.

here’s how this shit went down:

According to Pratt's account, as described by the sources, Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump — “leaning” toward Pratt as if to be discreet — then told Pratt two pieces of information about U.S. submarines: the supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they routinely carry, and exactly how close they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

holy shit, this motor-mouth moron divulged our nation’s most sensitive secrets to some complete rando.

how is this imbecile not already behind bars?

yes, I get that Reality Winner and Jack Teixiera were denied bail because they distributed documents, and Trump is free because he was only charged with retention, but come the fuck on.

you knew it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

of course Donald Trump bragged about nuclear secrets. why the fuck wouldn’t he? he’s a weak self-doubting nitwit who needs to puff himself up in front of others — and what better way than by showing off that you know things — the best things, things that no one else knows.

this man is a walking national security nightmare.

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over at the Palmer Report, Robert Harrington has written a piece called “Donald Trump, foreign spy.” in it, he speaks of his own experience handling classified nuclear secrets for the Department of Energy:

I found this all very amusing and said so, with what I imagined to be sophisticated and world-weary ennui. I was quickly disabused of my conceit by my usually relaxed and irreverent boss. He told me that those documents contained secrets upon which people’s lives depended. They were real people, not theoretical people, people with mothers and wives and kids.

I was to treat my clearance with all due solemnity, he said, as if my very own mother’s life depended on it. Because, I could rest assured, that somewhere someone’s mother’s or father’s or son’s or daughter’s life really would depend on it some day.

That shook me up and woke me up. I never underestimated the human value of intelligence again. I never scoffed at the awesome responsibility with which I was entrusted, however briefly. Those of us given charge over America’s secrets formed a human chain around this thing called national security, and at the centre of that chain were other human beings who hoped we wouldn’t screw it up. So we didn’t. We took our responsibility seriously.

Robert Harrington took his responsibility seriously. Donald Trump did not.

do you think that Trump gives one microscopic fuck about the real lives that he has put in danger by divulging exactly how close American submarines can get to a Russian sub without being detected?

no, he absolutely does not.

Donald Trump only gives a fuck about Donald Trump.

how many free passes are we going to give this menace? lock him the fuck up and throw away the fucking key — before he does any more damage.

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