The National Security Risks Are Coming from WITHIN trump's House, Y'all

So this is a story that's been percolating for awhile, and I've only gotten around to writing about it because the plot twists are getting thick.

Seems this past Saturday, a Chinese national was arrested at trump's Palm Beach Mar-A-Lago resort: Yujing Zhang claimed to be there for an event - promoted by a Chinese madam of a local chain of massage parlors - but had been discovered in another location at the resort carrying multiple electronic devices (four(!) smartphones for example) and a flash drive with malware on it. According to that article from the Miami Herald, Zhang's been charged with making false statements and being in a restricted area.

As for the Chinese madam story, oh man does this go full Florida (link to David Rothkopf's article at the Daily Beast): Cindy Yang is a regular Mar-A-Lago attendee, who has been selling her access to trump's private resort to other Chinese businesspersons back at the mainland. She had been the owner of a Jupiter FL massage parlor where a police sting uncovered various upper-income well-to-do men would come in for... ahem, not massages (I think the services are called "hummers" in polite circles). One such gentleman was the super-rich owner of the New England Patriots (and one of trump's closest billionaire buddies, which begs a couple questions of how Kraft - from Boston area - ever heard about this dinky little parlor out the outskirts of South Florida). Yang may have sold that particular storefront but still owns others across the country... and was with trump at Mar-A-Lago watching the Patriots win the Super Bowl this past February.

As for Mar-A-Lago itself, it's one of trump's preferred hangouts on his golf weekends, getting away from the White House so he can hang out behind his own gated security with other grifters and wannabes. While the place is guarded with walls and security and limited access, trump's resort has been called a massive security risk since his first trip as Loser of the Popular Vote (this is a Reuters article from February 2017!):

President Donald Trump’s handling of U.S. security information at his Florida resort came under congressional scrutiny on Tuesday as a watchdog panel asked the White House to explain reports that Trump dealt with a sensitive foreign policy issue in view of club guests.

Representative Jason Chaffetz, head of the House of Representatives oversight committee, sent a letter asking the White House for details on how Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe responded to a North Korean ballistic missile test while visiting the Mar-a-Lago golf resort over the weekend.

Photos taken by private guests in the club’s public dining area showed Trump and Abe conferring and looking at documents while surrounded by their aides following Pyongyang’s missile launch...

I'm just gonna stop right there.

Remember all those cool spy movies from the 1960s, where James Bond would break into a high-security building, whip out a small camera and take pictures of top secret files, get into a fist-fight with a careless guard, and then slip out using a spy gadget to get him to the nearest Asian massage parlor?

Today, all Bond gotta do is go to the massage parlor first, get an invite to Mar-A-Lago, and then break out his iPhone (or British smartphone equivalent) to take pictures of sensitive and likely classified materials before calmly walking out the front door.

Right now, our greatest security risk isn't some disaffected hacker in the basement of the CIA complaining about his paycheck and selling off secrets to an undercover crew.

Our greatest security risk is the crooked sonofabitch selling access to his own goddamned resorts he shouldn't even be owning under our Constitution's Emoluments Clause. It's this corrupt bastard who can't keep bragging or showing off to his fellow corrupt buddies whenever possible and in clear view of questionable guests and invitees who use foreign money to buy their way in.

And we're coping with a trump White House where it's become clear that trump intervened to grant security clearance to MANY persons in his inner circle who are major security risks.

We're at a point where our own intelligence agencies can't trust the one person they're supposed to hand all their intel. Actually, we've been at that point since Day One of the trump dumpster fire. It's just now we're at the point the proof is out there.

Along with anything else trump let his Mar-A-Lago guests take pictures of.

/headdesk