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Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com)
According to Politico, "President Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications." The decision is "a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance." From the report: The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones -- one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites -- are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications. While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was "too inconvenient," the same administration official said. The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump's call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.
how much Politico cares about government security now. Why he must be stretching a whole bunch of security regs and if he wasn't the PRESIDENT, I am sure he would be in trouble right? God knows if he was using a co-hosted personal email server sending top secret emails to unvetted friends. It is so horrible he is using the issued phones and not burning them as he travels around the US... At least it is saving the CIA five minutes to swap phone info while spying on him right?
How are the resident Trump supporters going to explain this away as somehow not yet another piece of evidence supporting the fact that he's stupid, as anyone who doesn't understand and respect the grave importance of securing the President's cell phone must be, especially after having intelligence experts explain it over and over, but instead indicates he's actually a stable genius, and just playing dumb and/or being a jerk?
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This "story" (and all the probably-paid-for posts comparing Trump's use of Twitter to Her Heinous's use of an illegal email server...) is nothing more that spin from Democrats trying to get out in front of the looming release of the Justice Department's Inspector General's report on the DoJ/FBI coverup of Hillary!'s illegal email server.
That OIG report is going to drop a giant turd into the "progressive" punch bowl that holds the Kool-aid that makes one believe:
1. Hillary! didn't commit any felonies
2. Obama didn't know
3. The DoJ/FBI/White House didn't conspire to cover up the server's existence
Look at all the desperate leaks that have come out in the past week or so. Look how the leaks have moved the "cover story". The DoJ/FBI deep staters leaked the identity of the spy, errr, informant (DAMNIT HE'S AN INFORMANT NOT A SPY!!!!!!) they aimed at the Trump campaign, when before this week the claim was, "We didn't spy on Trump AT ALL" - but now the spin is "It was a GOOD THING we weaponized the US intelligence powers against a political opponent!"
Look at all the "Russia collusion is TREASON!!!" posts showing up here - trying to muddy the waters and make fools believe that there's actually evidence Trump colluded with Russia (thus making the spying OK - don't fall for it because next time it's the Republican's doing it to someone like Corey Booker...)
Trump is, of course, wholly unqualified to be President.
Having stated the obvious about him, let me clear up something that should be pretty obvious about Clinton. Here's who funds Hillary, her top contributors:
Paloma Partners (hedge fund) $21,613,800
Pritzker Group (investment firm) $16,626,207
Renaissance Technologies (hedge fund) $16,543,000
Saban Capital Group (investment firm) $12,283,411
Newsweb Corp (media conglomerate) $11,016,642
Soros Fund Management (investment firm) $10,556,793
https://www.opensecrets.org/pr...
> Nor the tax breaks for the ultra rich including Wall Street.
The literally works for the largest Wall Street firms, that's who pays her bills. Ultra-rich? With $29 billion, Pritzkers are one of the wealthiest families in the country. Soros is one of the richest people on Wall Street, with $8 billion. These are the people funding Clinton, the people she works for.