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Classified Trump

We have come to it with a new team for Trump and Trump receiving classified information.  Dangerous situation for the Donald.  Trump is in the unenviable position of having a campaign allowed no more mistakes.  With a new team on board, dangers abound.  The new team allows "Trump to be Trump."  In my view Trump has for decades allowed his base feelings free through perhaps nasty, perhaps catty, perhaps inappropriate remarks as a part of his business operations.  His apparatchiks know this.  They have experienced this in board rooms, and now in the press, the latter not to his advantage.  He seems unable and unwilling to change.  However...  He is now privy to classified briefings.

Trump should beware that revealing any possible hint he knows classified information.  This will be watched carefully.  And hints are regarded in the wide sense, with comments to the effect, "How did he know that?" 
Doesn't matter.  Just the statement infers he is revealing or telegraphing classified information is risky.  This reveals his unfitness, as the Clinton campaign will certainly claim.
It may be a master stroke, while legal, to give him this (classified) information. He must conceal it while revealing no hint.  Difficult for Trump.  The more classified info given him, the more tempted he will be to reveal or hint or suggest.

The Clinton team would like nothing better than to counter-charge that he, the Donald, is revealing, knowledgeably or not, classified info.

It wouldn't matter if you or I would posit this or that, classified or not,  but for him to even suggest he knows anything classified or for his opponents to suggest he has done so, he suffers.  I think he will be unable to resist giving hints.  Hint, hint.

Hillary Clinton seems immune from this.  Even though her email was loaded with classified information, she merely needs to say it "was not MARKED classified" seems to work.  Lucky her. 
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