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One of the oddities of the moment is that Republican officials who work closely with Trump almost uniformly regard him as wildly unfit for office Trump's gross unsuitability for office is the subtext of the constant stream of leaks that have emanated from his administration (and, before that, his campaign). James Comey told associates he found the president "outside the realm of normal," even "crazy," reported the New York Times recently A Republican close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump is "in the grip of some kind of paranoid delusion." A spin the latest debacle in the most forgiving way, tells Politico, "He doesn't really know any boundaries. He doesn't think in those terms He doesn't sometimes realize the implications of what he's saying. I don't think it was his intention in any way to share any classified information. He wouldn't want to do that." (This was offered as an alternative to the suspicion that Trump is deliberately undermining U.S. intelligence to benefit his Russian friends.) friend of Trump, trying to

One of the oddities of the moment is that Republican officials who work closely with Trump almost uniformly regard him as wildly unfit for office Trump's gross unsuitability for office is the subtext of the constant stream of leaks that have emanated from his administration (and, before that, his campaign). James Comey told associates he found the president "outside the realm of normal," even "crazy," reported the New York Times recently A Republican close to the White House told the Washington Post Trump is "in the grip of some kind of paranoid delusion." A spin the latest debacle in the most forgiving way, tells Politico, "He doesn't really know any boundaries. He doesn't think in those terms He doesn't sometimes realize the implications of what he's saying. I don't think it was his intention in any way to share any classified information. He wouldn't want to do that." (This was offered as an alternative to the suspicion that Trump is deliberately undermining U.S. intelligence to benefit his Russian friends.) friend of Trump, trying to

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Great. We ruined our friendship. Thanks, Trump.

May 16, 9:28 AM EDT THE LATEST: EUROPEAN COUNTRY MIGHT HALT US INTEL-SHARING WASHINGTON (AP)The Latest on the report that President Donald Trump shared classified information with Russian officials (all times EDT): 9:25 a.m AP Phota/Susan Walsh A senior European intelligence official tells The A Press that his country might stop sharing information with the United States if it confirms President Donald Trump shared classified details with Russian officials The official said Tuesday that doing so "could be a risk for our sources." The official spoke only on condition that neither he nor his country be identified, because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. By Jan M. Olsen

May 16, 9:28 AM EDT THE LATEST: EUROPEAN COUNTRY MIGHT HALT US INTEL-SHARING WASHINGTON (AP)The Latest on the report that President Donald Trump shared classified information with Russian officials (all times EDT): 9:25 a.m AP Phota/Susan Walsh A senior European intelligence official tells The A Press that his country might stop sharing information with the United States if it confirms President Donald Trump shared classified details with Russian officials The official said Tuesday that doing so "could be a risk for our sources." The official spoke only on condition that neither he nor his country be identified, because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly. By Jan M. Olsen

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Russia can't hack our secrets if we tell them our secrets

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In case you're still a non-believer: A list of all the investigations into Trump

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ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS HOUSE AND SENATE INTEL COMMITTEES SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL? FBI COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE FBI OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE? TREASURY DEPARTMENT LIVE MSNBC 'S APPEAL OF A COURT RULING THAT FOUND ITS LEGISLATURE INTENDED TO D

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New York Daily News's cover page

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Bill Keating's statement on intelligence leak to Russians

KEATING STATEMENT ON CLASSIFIED INTEL SHARED WITH RUSSIANS BY POTUS Washington, DC - Below is a statement by Congressman Bill Keating, a leading Congressional expert in aviation security and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the recent reports tha President Trump revealed classified information to Russian officials. "The revelation of classified information by the President to a hostile foreign nation betrays his fundamental obligation as commander in chief, and necessitates an immediate disclosure to Congress. With American lives and those of our allies jeopardized, the long silence from Congressional Republicans is no longer acceptable."

KEATING STATEMENT ON CLASSIFIED INTEL SHARED WITH RUSSIANS BY POTUS Washington, DC - Below is a statement by Congressman Bill Keating, a leading Congressional expert in aviation security and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the recent reports tha President Trump revealed classified information to Russian officials. "The revelation of classified information by the President to a hostile foreign nation betrays his fundamental obligation as commander in chief, and necessitates an immediate disclosure to Congress. With American lives and those of our allies jeopardized, the long silence from Congressional Republicans is no longer acceptable."

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Bob Corker's statement regarding intelligence breach with Russians

The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order. It's just got to happen." 35 "Obviously they're in a downward spiral right now and they've got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening. The shame of it is there's a really good national security team in place and there are good, productive things that are underway through them and through others. But the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment that I think makes - it creates a worrisome environment."

The White House has got to do something soon to bring itself under control and in order. It's just got to happen." 35 "Obviously they're in a downward spiral right now and they've got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening. The shame of it is there's a really good national security team in place and there are good, productive things that are underway through them and through others. But the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment that I think makes - it creates a worrisome environment."

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Did Obama fire Boente knowing Trump would ask him to rejoin?

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Claude Taylor: Sealed indictment against Trump to serve as basis for impeachment

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Clapper says Russia is withholding data on Republicans

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Self-incrimination

THIS IS FINE DONALD TRUMP: He made- he made a recommendation, he's highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy, uh the Democrats like him, the Republicans like him, uh he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey knowing, there was no good time to do it. And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lo won almost impossible for a Republican to win. Very hard. Because you start off at such a disadvantage. So everybody was thinking, they should have won the election. This was an excuse for having lost an election. n election that they should have e reason they should have won it is the electoral college is ssen

THIS IS FINE DONALD TRUMP: He made- he made a recommendation, he's highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy, uh the Democrats like him, the Republicans like him, uh he made a recommendation but regardless of recommendation I was going to fire Comey knowing, there was no good time to do it. And in fact when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lo won almost impossible for a Republican to win. Very hard. Because you start off at such a disadvantage. So everybody was thinking, they should have won the election. This was an excuse for having lost an election. n election that they should have e reason they should have won it is the electoral college is ssen

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We said no for good reason!

When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBl director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin The chummy White House visit-photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit-had been one of Putin's asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. "He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to," a White House spokesman said of Trump's Lavrov meeting. "Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked." The meeting was Lavrov's first in the White House since 2013-and came after several years of the Obama administration's flat-out refusal to grant him an Oval Office audience, two former senior White House officials told me. "The Russians were begging us for years to do that," one of the former officials said. "They were constantly pushing for it and we were constantly saying no." 93

When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBl director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking with recent precedent at the specific request of Russian President Vladimir Putin The chummy White House visit-photos of the president yukking it up with Lavrov and Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak were released by the Russian Foreign Ministry since no U.S. press was allowed to cover the visit-had been one of Putin's asks in his recent phone call with Trump, and indeed the White House acknowledged this to me later Wednesday. "He chose to receive him because Putin asked him to," a White House spokesman said of Trump's Lavrov meeting. "Putin did specifically ask on the call when they last talked." The meeting was Lavrov's first in the White House since 2013-and came after several years of the Obama administration's flat-out refusal to grant him an Oval Office audience, two former senior White House officials told me. "The Russians were begging us for years to do that," one of the former officials said. "They were constantly pushing for it and we were constantly saying no." 93

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Series of headlines batter administration

NYT: Comey thought Trump was "crazy" WSJ: Comey was concerned by evidence of possible collusion, never told Trump he wasn't under investigation WaPo: Trump was mad that Comey didn't support his baseless claim that Obama wiretapped him POLITICO: Trump hosted Russian ambassador in Oval Office at Putin's personal request

NYT: Comey thought Trump was "crazy" WSJ: Comey was concerned by evidence of possible collusion, never told Trump he wasn't under investigation WaPo: Trump was mad that Comey didn't support his baseless claim that Obama wiretapped him POLITICO: Trump hosted Russian ambassador in Oval Office at Putin's personal request

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Leaker in chief

A photographer took pictures of russian oligarchs before and after she gave them code-word classified intel

A photographer took pictures of russian oligarchs before and after she gave them code-word classified intel

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Senate Intel Committee expands investigation

Members of the Senate intelligence committee have started to hint that their own investigation is entering a new avenuee leading to Trump's financial relationships It wouldn't be the first time federal authorities have probed Trump's financial space: The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposed a $10-million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort for what it called, "significant and long-standing ant money laundering violations." A Russian money-laundering ring operated inside New York's Trump Tower. Dozens pleaded guilty in 2013 over the scheme Gambling profits had been run through a financially struggling plumbing company. The two main actors worked from their apartments in Trump's building. Trump was not linked to that. Trump did do business with another Russian previously convicted of money-laundering. Trump walked out on a BBC interviewer in 2013 when asked about Felix Sater, whose Bayrock Group invested in three Trump properties, and who on other occasions reportedly presented himself as an employee of the Trump organization Both Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn have been the subject of investigations related to allegedly improperly reported income from Russia. Now the Senate is asking for more information about Trump's finances lts Russia investigators on the intelligence committee are asking the U.S. Treasury Department's criminal investigation division for any information relevant to the president, his top aides and campaign officials A Republican member of that committee, Lindsey Graham, has said he wants to know more about Trump's business dealings The president has vet to release his taxes, which is the normm

Members of the Senate intelligence committee have started to hint that their own investigation is entering a new avenuee leading to Trump's financial relationships It wouldn't be the first time federal authorities have probed Trump's financial space: The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network imposed a $10-million civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort for what it called, "significant and long-standing ant money laundering violations." A Russian money-laundering ring operated inside New York's Trump Tower. Dozens pleaded guilty in 2013 over the scheme Gambling profits had been run through a financially struggling plumbing company. The two main actors worked from their apartments in Trump's building. Trump was not linked to that. Trump did do business with another Russian previously convicted of money-laundering. Trump walked out on a BBC interviewer in 2013 when asked about Felix Sater, whose Bayrock Group invested in three Trump properties, and who on other occasions reportedly presented himself as an employee of the Trump organization Both Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort and his former national security adviser Michael Flynn have been the subject of investigations related to allegedly improperly reported income from Russia. Now the Senate is asking for more information about Trump's finances lts Russia investigators on the intelligence committee are asking the U.S. Treasury Department's criminal investigation division for any information relevant to the president, his top aides and campaign officials A Republican member of that committee, Lindsey Graham, has said he wants to know more about Trump's business dealings The president has vet to release his taxes, which is the normm

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Dangers of the hollow man

Which brings us to the reports that Trump betrayed an intelligence source and leaked secrets to his Russian visitors. From all we know so far, Trump didn't do it because he is a Russian agent, or for any malevolent intent. He did it because he is sloppy, because he lacks all impulse control, and above all because he is a 7- year-old boy desperate for the approval of those he admires he Russian leak story reveals one other thing, the dangerousness of a hollow man Our institutions depend on people who have enough engraved character traits to fulfill their assigned duties. But there is perpetually less to Trump than it appears. When we analyze a president's utterances we tend to assume that there is some substantive process behind the words, that it's part of some strategic intent

Which brings us to the reports that Trump betrayed an intelligence source and leaked secrets to his Russian visitors. From all we know so far, Trump didn't do it because he is a Russian agent, or for any malevolent intent. He did it because he is sloppy, because he lacks all impulse control, and above all because he is a 7- year-old boy desperate for the approval of those he admires he Russian leak story reveals one other thing, the dangerousness of a hollow man Our institutions depend on people who have enough engraved character traits to fulfill their assigned duties. But there is perpetually less to Trump than it appears. When we analyze a president's utterances we tend to assume that there is some substantive process behind the words, that it's part of some strategic intent

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Sunday: Golf

Monday: Learned that Obama warned Trump about Flynn Tuesday: Trump fires Comey "on recommendation" of Rosenstein Wednesday: Trump meets with Lavrov, Kislyek. TASS photog allowed into Oval Office. Thursday: Trump says he was going to fire Comey no matter what, did it thinking about Russia investigation Friday: Trump suggests he has "tapes" of Comey Saturday: Potential FBI candidates paraded in front of cameras Sunday: Golf Monday: Trump, it turns out, shared highly classified intel with Russians.

Monday: Learned that Obama warned Trump about Flynn Tuesday: Trump fires Comey "on recommendation" of Rosenstein Wednesday: Trump meets with Lavrov, Kislyek. TASS photog allowed into Oval Office. Thursday: Trump says he was going to fire Comey no matter what, did it thinking about Russia investigation Friday: Trump suggests he has "tapes" of Comey Saturday: Potential FBI candidates paraded in front of cameras Sunday: Golf Monday: Trump, it turns out, shared highly classified intel with Russians.

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Tweets that didn't age well: Reice Priebus

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Trump leaks represent national security threat

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said. The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump's decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump's meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency.

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump's disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said. The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump's decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump's meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency.

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Trump brags about the intel to Dmitri Lavrov

ion officials. "Trump "It is all kind of shocking," said a former senior U.S. official close to current seems to be very reckless, and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And it's all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia." In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,"Trump said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

ion officials. "Trump "It is all kind of shocking," said a former senior U.S. official close to current seems to be very reckless, and doesn't grasp the gravity of the things he's dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And it's all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia." In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,"Trump said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange. Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State's territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.

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