From @POTUS Trumps Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open

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From @POTUS Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open https://nyti.ms/2l8BwaD #P2

Very little is being said about this incident. Guess the media can only handle one crisis at a time




From Trump’s Mar-a-Lago to Facebook, a National Security Crisis in the Open

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/us/politics/mar-a-lago-north-korea-trump.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0




By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and MAGGIE HABERMAN FEB. 13, 2017






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A club member posted images of the national security discussion on Facebook.

WASHINGTON — President Trump and his top aides coordinated their response to North Korea’s missile test on Saturday night in full view of diners at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida — a remarkable public display of presidential activity that is almost always conducted in highly secure settings...................................







......The fact that the national security incident played out in public view drew swift condemnation from Democrats, who said it was irresponsible for Mr. Trump not to have moved his discussion to a more private location.

“There’s no excuse for letting an international crisis play out in front of a bunch of country club members like dinner theater,” Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader in the House, wrote on Twitter.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Tom Udall of New Mexico, Democrats who have called for Mr. Trump’s club to release a list of its members, denounced the president on Monday for discussing the North Korean missile launch in the open.

“This is America’s foreign policy, not this week’s episode of ‘Saturday Night Live,’” the senators said in a statement. “We urge our Republican colleagues to start taking this administration’s rash and unprofessional conduct seriously before there are consequences we all regret.”....................................

[C_U_L8R]

1. And Russian agent Rybolovlev wasn't only staying at Mar-A-Lago

but Trump was golfing with him !!!! WTF !

[blogslut]

5. While Rybololev was in Palm Beach,

I believe the tall blonde man in the photo with BLOTUS is professional golfer Ernie Els.

http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/trump-plays-golf-els-japanese-prime-minister-abe/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Trump loved being able to show off his importance to the members of his club.

Why would he move into a private room to deal with the situation when he could strut his stuff before all those high-rollers who paid $200K for their front-row seats?

What next - will he add a spectators' section to the situation room and sell tickets?

[Leghorn21]

3. You said it!!:

"Very little is being said about this incident. Guess the media can only handle one crisis at a time."

When breaking news !!!*BREAKS*!!! every 16 seconds (on a slow day), who the eff can keep up - but this travesty has been as duly noted, I believe, and is on "the list" of "WTF was THAT??!"

[2naSalit]

4. And THAT is why the press had to

sit in a dungeon of visqueen.

[herding cats]

6. This is a very big deal.

K&R for more eyes.