As part of a panel discussion Saturday morning on the MSNBC program AMJoy, a security analyst said that Donald Trump’s early morning tweets accusing former President Obama of tapping his phones is proof that the investigations of his ties to Russia are finally taking their toll on the already unstable head of state.
Malcolm Nance, a former Naval cryptographer who has been in the field of intelligence for over 35 years, told Joy Reid:
“I have been involved in advanced information collection in my world, I have no idea what Donald Trump is talking about. We do not even do that the way he probably thinks, from ‘The Sopranos,’ where we’re running wires into his office. This is very dangerous. The people who would be tasked in Justice, if there were any questions coming from the White House starting today or any time in the foreseeable future, is how do they actually do collections?”
Nance added that he thinks Trump knows he is caught and about to be exposed:
“It means they’re [the White House] preparing for a coverup, because they want to know how they’re actually getting this information. This is what happens when a target starts getting buggy — he’s caught.”
Later in the discussion, Nance also remarked:
“The president of the Unites States is the ultimate authority. He’s the commander-in-chief. But if he was the target, they do have the right to withhold information from him. He does not have a ‘need to know’ on a counter-intelligence investigation if he is actually suspected of doing illegal activities.
“He is acting this morning like that information is real. That means he’s confirming everything that we suspect. And by running around and tweeting that he’s afraid of it, he knows that something’s going on and he’s trying to project a frame of reference about information that he suspects is coming out.
“If he thinks his phones are tapped, he believes that we know everything and this is a dance that is very dangerous.”
Trump needs to go, and the sooner we get rid of him via Constitutional means, the better off this country and the world will be.
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