Mark Esper said Trump’s mishandling of classified information was 'unauthorized, illegal and dangerous.”
host Jake Tapper asked if Trump can be “trusted with the nation’s secrets ever again,” Esper replied, ““It’s just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk, places our nation’s security at risk,” Esper continued. “You cannot have these documents floating around. They need to be secured. We know how that happens, that only authorized persons are allowed to see documents or receive information from documents.
When Tapper asked Esper to expand on exactly how serious it would be if an agent from another country had access to the documents Trump held onto, the former defense secretary pointed out how it could hamper the military and its ability to respond to or launch certain attacks. “Imagine if a foreign agent, another country were to discover documents that outline America’s vulnerabilities or the weaknesses of the United States military,” Esper said. “Think about how that could be exploited, how that could be used against us in a conflict, how an enemy could develop countermeasures, things like that. Or in the case of the most significant piece that was raised in the allegation about U.S.
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