Baku-APA. US Senator Chris Murphy has attacked Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, saying Trump would leak classified intelligence if he thought he could gain political advantage, APA reports quoting Press TV.
“He wouldn’t think twice of taking classified information and putting it out in the public realm if he thought it served his political purposes," Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut, told BuzzFeed on Thursday.
US presidential candidates traditionally receive classified briefings from intelligence officials during the campaign as part of the transition process.
James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, told reporters last week that there's already an "established plan" for briefing the presidential nominees of both the parties.
Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he is seriously concerned with the prospect of Trump having access to sensitive intelligence information.
Murphy, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, claimed Trump has "no moral or ethical grounding" and said he was particularly concerned about Russia.
“Megalomaniacs find each other, I guess. I suspect Trump looks at Putin and sees a lot of himself," Murphy said of Trump and Putin who have praised each other. "You can just feel Putin reeling Trump in right now."
But it seems the classified information the Democratic senator expressing his concerns is not about President Putin or Russia, but about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans
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