What a distinction six years makes.
A resurfaced clip from August 2016 exhibits Trump as a presidential candidate vowing to make implementing legal guidelines round categorized data a precedence.
“In my administration, I’m going to enforce all laws concerning the protection of classified information,” he stated in a clip rediscovered by CNN journalist Andrew Kaczynski.
Considering that Trump was reportedly preserving bins of top-secret paperwork he took in a storage room at Mar-a-Lago and dubiously claimed his “standing order” mechanically “declassified” something he took out of the White House, it’s no marvel that many Twitter customers had ideas.
And, in fact, some commented utilizing the three snarkiest phrases on social media: “this aged well.”