It also highlights that if Trump were not president, the role, which would allow him to access the most sensitive secrets of the country, would have made it almost impossible for him to obtain security clearances, much needed for those working for him. Is, according to legal experts familiar with the testing process.
“A weakness can be exploited by opposition,” Robert Cardillo, a former top official in both the Obama and Trump administrations, told CNN on Monday. “If we were evaluating a foreign leader in the form of an intelligence community, and trying to understand its stability, and a foreign or even a national entity was known to be visible, we would see that as a risk.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC that she also saw the spectacular revelation of Trump’s chaotic finances as a national security problem.
“They have hundreds of millions of dollars in exposure. Who? The public has a right to know,” he said.
Pelosi added that the fact that the benefit of more than લાભ 400 million is that someone is above the President of the United States. “If it becomes a federal appointment, it will be a big hurdle, because someone has benefited from it.”
Debt is one of the things security officials refuse to clarify, as it is likely to be taken advantage of by the adversary or, if the person is more desperate, use it as a base for blackmail, experts say.
Mark Zaid, a lawyer representing consumers in the security clearance case, said Trump’s debt level was “incomprehensible in the world of national security.”
Zaid added that “security clearances are denied every day on the basis of facts that dwarf his circumstances.” “Although the president does not need security clearances based on position, the conditions that exist are surprisingly troubling. Can we trust Donald Trump to protect our country’s interests or his own personal interests?”
During a White House briefing on Sunday, Trump called the New York Times story “fake news” and claimed he paid “a lot” in federal income taxes.
Trump’s personal debt has long renewed fears
Trump’s reported personal debt critics and longtime fears about his administration by Democratic legislators suggest that he is manipulating U.S. diplomacy to prioritize his personal and financial goals over broader national interests.
For example, Trump has raised millions of dollars from business ventures in countries such as Turkey and the Philippines, which are run by autocrats whom he admires but who enjoy traditional U.S. rights such as human rights. Violates values. And while the New York Times reported that it paid a small amount of federal income tax to the Treasury between 2000 and 2017, the president or his companies paid more taxes to foreign powers, including 145,400 to India and 6,156,824 to the Philippines in 2017, according to the Times.
The Times report reveals the extraordinary possibility that the lender may be called upon to determine whether to make predictions about industries owned by the U.S. president, if he is in office if he is unable to repay the money.
Trump’s close allies, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have historically dismissed questions about the president’s personal finances and possible conflicts of interest.
“I find that question strange,” Pompeo was asked in 2018 when he asked how he could assure the American people that US foreign policy was free of Trump’s personal grievances even if his tax returns were not announced. “I haven’t seen the evidence of the strict suggestion you are making. It’s a criminal suggestion.”
But now questions about his personal debt have “raised the real question of foreign benefits and benefits to the president … which means benefits to the United States,” according to John Gaines, a Pentagon spokesman for the then-Secretary of Defense Ash. Carter.
“Where is this money left and whose is it? [to]And Gans, who serves as director of communications and research at the University of Pennsylvania World House Global Policy Center, said the way he pursues his foreign policy is very dangerous to the U.S. national interest. She is his wife, and he is trying to serve and make her happy, and we can’t see what she agrees to do. “
“Debt is a primary security clearance concern held by the government. Or historically, financial problems have been one of the main factors leading to espionage and betrayal of our country,” Zaid told CNN.
“While all the cases are about surrender demonstrations … the કરોડ 100 million debt is not understandable in the world of national security,” he said.
Trump and members of his family who retain top jobs at the White House have often stalled traditional government-investigation processes in search of foreign policy deals, which are key points in their election campaigns.
For example, the Trump administration used disputed emergency powers to sell arms to countries such as Saudi Arabia without congressional approval, and recently broke the agreement between the White House and the general input of legislators or key agencies between Israel and the UAE with little input. In the process.
Gains told CNN that the deal was part of his foreign policy record. The problem is that we don’t know what’s in the deal. We do not know what is promised.
More questions about Trump’s business dealings in Russia
The Times report stressed that he could not find a new relationship between the president and Russia. But intelligence officials have long questioned what would explain Trump’s economy when it comes to Moscow and President Vladimir Putin.
According to Bob Woodward, the president’s first director of national intelligence, Dan Coates, “continued to increase intelligence, which, while not supported by intelligence evidence, developed rather than diminished. Putin had something on Trump.” According to Woodward’s book “Rage,” Coates thought, “How to explain the president’s behavior?”
Trump has repeatedly clashed with the intelligence community, including Coates, over the issue of Russian intervention – an unsettling dynamic that has created a more unusual illustration of his presidency and raised questions about his motives, especially as he relates to the Moscow investigation. Interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump often slapped officials who asked him to inform them of such actions, why he focused on Russia and often questioned espionage, many former administration officials said.
CNN Asked about reports that Trump is resistant to intelligence warnings about Russia, National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe told CNN in July that “this is totally wrong” in a statement. Ratcliffe took the job in May.
Trump’s business dealings in Russia, which span nearly 90 years, have come under intense scrutiny in recent years, with officials seeking to hide Moscow’s interference in the 2001 election and contacts with members of the Trump campaign.
Questions from some witnesses during the extensive interview included the timing of Trump’s decision to run for president, possible conciliatory information about him and why Russians tried to brand the Trump Tower in Moscow, two sources said at the time.
Ultimately, however, Mueller and his chief of staff, Aaron Zebli, informed the White House that “unnecessarily assuming the presidency” could thwart future cooperation, and that “concerns about exposing Russia’s intervention in full and imaginatively jeopardizing Trump’s economic Will not ask for information. ” In the election, “according to the new book by Andrew Weissman, the top deputy of special counsel,” is where the law ends: Mueller is within the investigation. “
Vasisman also wrote that he saw the possibility of several investigations into Trump and the Trump organization, which were not pursued because the Mueller team did not follow all the financial trajectories. Those potential investigations include tax fraud, foreign bribery, election fraud and bank fraud.
On Monday, Weissman – formerly head of the FBI’s Criminal Fraud Department and well-versed in the inner workings of Trump’s orbit – spoke with the overall fear of revelations in the Times story: “Now ask Trump who has hundreds? Millions of dollars too much?” Coming soon? ”He tweeted.
CNN’s Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Polantz contributed to this report.
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