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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There really can be no justification for this. It’s really bad. Unfortunately not a basis for prosecution (afaik) but certainly a basis to toss trump out of the WH. Why would he be so careless with our state secrets? And why weren’t people like John Kelly or Mattis sounding the alarm?  I can understand that trump is an amoral and traitorous criminal, so he’d have no concern about exposing America’s secrets to benefit himself and his family. But why did other “grown ups” in the administration no sound the alarm??[/quote]

I understand the murkiness of law etc, but arm twisting by a president to provide security clearances to people who would not qualify otherwise should be illegal. Someone who has security clearance cannot share information gleaned through special access with someone else who doesn't have clearance. In fact people can go to jail for it. So, how is pressuring to give clearance to undeserving family member any different?[/quote]

Once this national embarrassment is over and we go back to having a President who behaves with honesty and dignity, someone needs to chance the rules on security clearances so that Presidents can't overrule professional judgments.[/quote]
Dems are trying to make changes now in regards to all the ethics violations by Trump, but Rs are fighting it.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/30/house-democrats-campaign-finance-ethics-laws-1034657[/quote]

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