"No One is Above the Law:" Trump Thinks He's Exempt and It's Not Applicable to Him

Classified Docs are Mine – No One Else's

(Only my rules apply)

Discussed our Nuke Subs with Aussie Billionaire

Update: This update has been added after the main topic (see below) was posted. This comes from an excellent U.S. News & World Report with this headline:

“Why Keeping Nuclear Secrets Classified Matters”

Trump can't keep his mouth shut 24/7

(Brags and our nuke secrets be damned)

NOTE: The Pentagon can't believe that Trump told another President about Nuclear Subs near North Korea (reported on and seen in this video clip).

Original post follows:

Follow up to my earlier post (seen here) with this headline article from the NY Times posted at SALON.com and in my view warrants this direct appeal to S/C Jack Smith: “Please push this most-sensitive issue quickly to top of your work load and get Trump behind bars where he belongs and where others (article here and here) show their punishment for revealing or mishandling or possessing without authority our most secret information. Doing so now for Trump would be just fine. He is without any question or doubt a clear and present danger to our national security.”

“Tip of the iceberg: Experts sound the alarm after Trump blabbed nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago”

Key parts from SALON article that also matches other sources (formatted to fit the blog):

Former President Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire member of his Mar-a-Lago club who then shared it with at least 45 others, according to ABC News and The New York Times.

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team and the FBI have interviewed the billionaire, Anthony Pratt, at least twice, according to ABC News. 

Pratt is among more than 80 potential witnesses that may testify against Trump in the classified documents trial, according to the NY Times.

Pratt told investigators that he brought up the U.S. submarine fleet, which they had discussed before (ABC News): According to Pratt's account, he 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”  — told Pratt two pieces of information about U.S. submarines:

(1) The supposed exact number of nuclear warheads they routinely carry, and (2) exactly how close they supposedly can get to a Russian submarine without being detected.

After meeting with Trump, Pratt shared the information with at least 45 others, according to the report. 

Pratt told investigators he could not determine whether what Trump told him was true but investigators cautioned him not to repeat the numbers Trump allegedly told him, underscoring the potentially sensitive nature of the information, sources told the outlet. 

Another witness who previously worked at Mar-a-Lago also told investigators that he heard Pratt relaying the information to others within minutes of his meeting with Trump. 

The ex-employee told investigators that he was “shocked” and “bothered” that Trump provided seemingly sensitive information to a foreign citizen, according to the report.

Pratt told investigators that Trump did not show him any government documents and insisted that what he told others was to show them that he was advocating for his country in the U.S., according to ABC. 

Some of the officials who were told were involved in negotiations with the Biden administration to purchase nuclear submarines from the United States at the time.

The incident was not included in Smith’s indictment of Trump, now charged with illegally retaining national security documents and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them. 

A Trump spokesperson told ABC News: “The report lacks “proper context and relevant information. President Trump did nothing wrong, he has always insisted on truth and transparency, and he has acted in a proper manner, according to the law.”

Joe Hockey, a former Australian ambassador to the U.S., downplayed the information saying: “If that’s all that was discussed, we already know all that. We have had Australians serving with Americans on U.S. submarines for years, and we share the same technology and the same weapons as the U.S. Navy.”

My 2 Cents: Again we shall see what this critical issue brings forth against Trump – so far as we all know, Trump has been skating jail for his crimes for probably his entire adult life.

Our national justice stone: “No one is above the law” but it seems like Trump (at least to this point in time thinks he is totally exempt).

This story on top of all the Mar-a-Lago documents should be sufficient to put Trump away for a very long time – but, will it?

Time will tell with his pending 4 indictments and 91 federal and state charges. So, that is the proverbial $64,000 question, isn’t it?

So, stay tuned – updates will surely follow.

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