October 26: On This Day In 2018
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We probably agree that Trump isn’t the smartest guy in the room…no matter which room he’s in. But here, his stupidity and recklessness reached new lows.
Reporting by NBC revealed that Trump, for months while in office, had been discussing incredibly sensitive information with people not even in the government.
What made this particularly hard to imagine was that he had these conversations…on an unsecured ordinary cell phone.
Trump denied it, but this is what his former advisor Omarosa had to say:
OTDI 2018 The Atlantic reacted to this startling disclosure with the useful reminder that “Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure…But most of us aren’t the president of the United States.”
Longtime OTDI readers know that Donald Trump has frequently shown himself to be a personal security threat to the United States of America. At some point, it's probably because he's simply not smart enough to actually understand the risks.
This is what we've come to. The kindest possible explanation for Trump's continued risky behavior -- behavior that could spill our deepest secrets to anybody with a simple listening device -- is that he's simply extraordinarily stupid and is literally unable to grasp the consequences.
Got any better explanation?
Dive Deeper
NBC News reporting on the unsecured cell phone usage
The Atlantic's assessment
On This Day In The Trump Administration: Donald Trump uses unsecured cellphone; national security threat