Trump has been withholding phone calls with foreign leaders that contain politically damaging phone calls on a password protected national security server.
Here is the section of the appendix that blows the whistle on Trump’s hiding of information:
Video:
To get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily.
According to the whistleblower complaint, Trump has been hiding politically sensitive information in his phone calls on a national security server. pic.twitter.com/Y8OdnOnUFT
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) September 26, 2019
The appendix said, “According to white house officials that I spoke with, this was not the first time under the administration a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than in national security-sensitive information.”
Trump is abusing the intelligence classification system to cover up his crimes and secrets. None of this should be a surprise, but it is a flagrant abuse of power, and the whistleblower report has done a bigger service to the country than anyone first realized.
It appears to have laid out a roadmap to Trump’s biggest potential crimes in office.
There are more damaging readouts of Trump phone calls hidden on a password protected national security server.
Ukraine was just the beginning. It seems that there is much more to come.
For more discussion about this story join our Rachel Maddow and MSNBC group.
Follow Jason Easley on Facebook
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association
