'Reckless' Trump spilled nuclear secrets that 'Russian spies would die to get': Morning Joe
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was repulsed but unsurprised by reports that Donald Trump blabbed about nuclear secrets with a Mar-a-Lago club member.
The former president allegedly discussed sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt three months after leaving office, and the "Morning Joe" host showed video from 2016 of him discussing Trump's sloppy approach to classified materials.
"We all remember that disturbing time when we said he was ill fit, but, you know, this is a guy that has been reckless with intelligence from the very beginning," Scarborough said, after showing the clip of him talking about Trump asking why nuclear weapons weren't used more often during a briefing before his election to the White House. "I mean, one of his first visitors in the White House, he had the foreign minister of Russia and the Russian ambassador to the United States, what did do? He spilled classified secrets that we got from another country. Had no reporters in there, no U.S. reporters there, but had, you know, Russian, probably Russian spies posing as reporters inside the White House. He's just reckless and dangerous, but we've known that for, well, six, seven years."
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Pratt could be called to testify by special counsel Jack Smith, who has already indicted Trump for his mishandling of classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago.
"No president would do this other than Donald Trump," Scarborough added. "Again, I remain just absolutely -- I'll try to be emotionally level on this – fascinated by the fact that people are still, will you vote for a guy who steals nuclear secrets, takes them to his beach club, steals war plans and takes them to his beach club, and now, in this case, talks the specifics about our nuclear submarines, and talks about how close we can get to Russian nuclear. I mean, this is the sort of information that Russian spies would die to get, and that our spies would risk their lives to get from other countries. Donald Trump is just sitting there at Mar-a-Lago blabbing it, then this guy goes around and tells maybe 20 more people."
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