What can be done now to protect our nation's top-secret documents from Trump, I mean, the documents he hasn't already

[LaMouffette]

stolen, made copies of, shared with Putin, the Saudis, and Kid Rock, and buried at the golf course with dead Ivanna Trump?

I hope the intelligence community is putting their heads together to try to find some way to safeguard the documents, but I really see no way to keep them out of Benedict Trumpsky's hands.

If Harris had won and we had kept the Senate and won the House, we would've had a chance to try to impose some rules, like don't let a convicted felon and rapist ever become president, but that chance is gone.

I am, quite frankly, terrified.

[librechik]

1. A theory that comforts me is the notion

that he wasn't given any actually valuable documents. Those boxes were full of copies of official papers that they let him have. Because why on earth would they have handed off anything to the ex president that was important to the new admin? The real things are locked up better than that. Otherwise people would be running around with hair on fire about the incident instead of waiting around for years to get them back.

I don't know but something smells at the DOJ.

[albacore]

4. "...let him have.."????

He took them. Presidents have access.

[Lonestarblue]

2. Trump will put one of his goons in charge of the intelligence services, but I hope they can sanitize what he sees.

They should just create low-level reports for him and stamp them top secret so he thinks he’s getting real secrets he can share with Putin. I hope the CIA learned their lesson about sharing agent names and aliases with Trump since an unusual number of them ended up dead after he was given the names.

Vance will most likely share all intelligence with Peter Thiel and his buddies at the Heritage Foundation. We are so screwed.

[Freethinker65]

3. Absolutely nothing. Trump can declassify, give away, or sell anything. Any consequences would come after his term is up.

And there will be no consequences, ever. Too much time for delays in hearings and investigations that will most likely outlive Trump.

[LaMouffette]

5. You're right. I was thinking maybe they could trap him by feeding him some juicy "secrets" and seeing what he does with

them, but as we've seen, even when he was caught red-handed with 100 boxes of documents, there were no consequences.

So, yup, I'm terrified. Just have to hope we survive the next four years and that a Democratic presidential candidate emerges who, somehow, appeals to both our side and a significant number of Repubs (but what are the odds of THAT, right?).

[Zeitghost]

6. Nothing

Elections have consequences and this is one of them.