What did those high-ranking officials do? They locked it away
Trump Is More Unhinged than Ever, and He's Had Help
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Quiz time: What's wrong with this sentence?
"Trump told two senior Russian officials [Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak] in a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about Moscows interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election because the United States did the same in other countries, an assertion that prompted alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people."
Trump coupled his stated indifference to a foreign power micromanaging our presidential contest while he was divulging top secret information to the Russians and puffing himself up for having sacked the "nutjob" of an FBI director, which, in Trump's words, deflated the "great pressure" of a criminal investigation.
All that is disturbing enough. Even more disturbing in the Washington Post's quoted sentence, however, is that a U.S. president had just condoned Russia's electoral interference (which he thunderously denied in public), thereupon inviting further interference in 2020. And yet Trump's Constitutionally unhinged "assertion" merely caused "alarmed White House officials to limit access to the remarks to an unusually small number of people."
These alarmed officials should have leaked the president's spectacularly bizarre and addled notions about right and wrong to every major U.S. news outlet. A clear and present danger to our national security and electoral integrity had just exposed itself in the Oval Office. What did those high-ranking officials do? They locked it away, restricted its access to an "unusually small number of people," and concealed from the body politic vital information on the commander in chief's abhorrent unAmericanism.
Given Trump's privately disclosed, now public, remarks, given his thoughts as to what had passed and what would be, given his twisted motive and philosophical daftness of embracing a hostile foreign power, can we not imagine how the Mueller Report otherwise would have read, if only the officials had leaked the unpresidential secrecies rather than locking them away?
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