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Trump is About to Get Classified Intelligence Briefings Again
Once he becomes the official Republican nominee — after all of these Primary shenanigans end — a man currently under indictment for taking, hiding, and refusing to return classified docs, will soon have access to some more classified data…
In a move that raised eyebrows across the intelligence community back in 2017, then-President Donald Trump found himself under fire after sharing what was described as “highly classified” intelligence with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a White House meeting.
This wasn’t just any run-of-the-mill classified information; we’re talking about “code word” level intel here, which is about as top secret as it gets.
This kind of info is so sensitive that it’s usually shared under the tightest of wraps, strictly on a need-to-know basis between the closest of allies — and sometimes, not even allies. NOFORN stands for Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals.
And yet, here it was, being disclosed in a setting that, to put it mildly, wasn’t exactly designed for such exchanges. This incident didn’t just make waves for its apparent breach of protocol; it underscored the complex dance of trust, secrecy, and diplomacy that defines international relations, especially among intelligence-sharing partners.
