Hostile foreign intelligence agencies look for weaknesses in their targets of espionage. It could be gambling, excessive drinking, womanizing and more. One of the primary weaknesses that's woven through all others is debt, the inability of the target to pay his bills. In a perceptive article by Robert Maguire and Jordan Libowitz for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW), explain why the massive civil fraud and defamation judgements rendered against the Malignant Loser make him an obvious target for foreign interests who would be willing to pay off the judgements in return for his gratitude:
"Giving the highest and most powerful office in the land to someone deeply in debt and looking for ways to make back hundreds of millions of dollars he lost in court is a recipe for the kinds of corruption that aren’t theoretical when it comes to Trump. There’s a reason that you can’t get a job in the military or the financial services industry, or even referee a major sporting event, if you have a massive amount of debt. And you certainly aren’t getting a security clearance because you become too big of a target for corruption.
Trump’s corruption has always brought with it a threat to national security because he viewed the office of the president as one of self-service rather than public service. He routinely used his position to give paying customers access to the highest officials in the country. He even allowed three Mar-a-Lago members with no government or military experience to shape his administration’s veterans policies in secret. And his first impeachment revolved around Trump’s use of national security aid to Ukraine as leverage for dirt on his political opponent. Even after leaving office, Trump reportedly shared classified nuclear submarine information with an Australian billionaire who only became a Mar-a-Lago member to ingratiate himself with the American president, paying generously to attend galas Trump would attend, while in private saying Trump does business 'like the mafia.'” (our emphasis)
During his corrupt term in office, the Malignant Loser sought to profit off of his office, using his properties as venues for special interests -- foreign and domestic -- wanting to do business with the Federal Government and wanting to show the Malignant Loser their financial support of him. He disregarded the Constitution's foreign emoluments clause, giving the green light to bribery. The CREW article concludes:
"By the end of his presidency, Trump saw the Secret Service alone spend even more than he would have earned as president at his businesses. All the while, his tax returns show that he was bringing in tens of millions of dollars from foreign sources.
With half a billion dollars in new debt and his traditional lenders closed off to him, Donald Trump will have to find someone new to give him a huge amount of money in a very short time–and that is a major national security risk." (our emphasis)
A clear and present danger.
(photo: Trump's former Hotel in Washington, D.C. properly identified. Liz Gorman)
