Trump can’t be trusted with national security | READER COMMENTARY

A former president who ignored warnings in order to post spy satellite photos on social media isn't fit to be returned to office.

When Donald Trump’s supporters discuss his secret documents case, their kneejerk reaction is always to say, “What about Joe Biden? He had secret documents, too.”

It’s true that Biden, like a number of other ex-presidents and former vice presidents, did retain some documents that had secret classifications as they left office. In Biden’s case, after he and his team discovered a few such documents in a search they initiated on their own, they immediately turned them over to the U.S. Department of Justice.

As we know, Trump’s case is another matter. He had dozens of boxes of ultra-secret documents, thwarted the Justice Department’s efforts to recover them, and still has some hidden away (“Judge in Trump’s classified files case agrees to redact witness names, granting prosecution request,” April 9).

The real differentiator between the Biden and Trump document cases is Trump’s cavalier sharing of secret documents. Several witnesses have related stories of Trump sharing secret documents in meetings in the White House and Bedminster, over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, and elsewhere.

Perhaps the most egregious example of mishandling secret documents was when Trump became fascinated by a high-definition photo taken by a U.S. satellite of a missile accident in Iran. Pentagon officials told him not to share it because though the satellite’s existence was known to our enemies, its remarkable photo capability was not.

So what did Trump do? After showing it to numerous people, including staffers at Mar-a-Lago, he posted it on social media.

Trump, who compromised our national security, is unfit to be president.

— Mel Tansill, Catonsville

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