"Lock her up," they chanted at the rallies and the Republican National Convention, egged on by Donald Trump and surrogates like Michael Flynn. The gobsmacking hypocrisy of all that now extends well beyond the fact that Trump is the subject of multiple investigations, and that more than one of those surrogates, Flynn included, have pled guilty to a federal offense. Long ago, we learned that at least six of Trump's advisers used private email accounts while working in the White House—the exact sin that Trump suggested was worthy of jail time when Hillary Clinton did it. But in the Age of Shamelessness, even that will not suffice.

Politico reports Tuesday that, in a departure from his predecessors, President Trump uses a cell phone that is not equipped with adequate security features to shield his communications. The phone he uses for calls is equipped with a microphone and camera, and it is unclear how often it is switched out. That could leave him, the President of the United States, open to hacking and surveillance.

That's one of two mobile phones the president uses. He has also resisted his aides' pleas to swap out his second phone—which is equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites—more frequently on the grounds that it is "too inconvenient." That is the exact goddamn verbatim excuse Hillary Clinton used in her case, and was ruthlessly criticized for:

"I opted for convenience to use my personal email account-which was allowed by the State Department-because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two."

It's important these days to remember that Nothing Matters. In Clinton's case, choosing convenience was evidence of a perhaps disqualifying disregard for security protocol. It dominated the coverage of her campaign, perhaps because political reporters eager to appear unbiased covered it as equivalent to each and all of Trump's antics.

In this case, however, it's a half-day story. You can rest assured that there will be a new Trumpian outrage soon enough to drown out the fact that, according to Politico, the president refuses to swap out his "Twitter phone" even on a monthly basis.

The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump’s call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.

So we don't know how often the phone he makes calls on is swapped out. That leaves open the possibility that the president is calling up his friends on a non-secure phone that could be surveilled or hacked. Surely the famously tight-lipped Donald Trump, who has never let slip top-secret or sensitive information in the wrong context, has not been spilling any state secrets in late-night calls to Sean Hannity while anyone else is listening in.

We know the deal for the Twitter Phone, however. A senior White House official explained to Politico that, "because of the security controls of the Twitter phone and the Twitter account, it does not necessitate regular change-out.” Let's hope they're right, and there isn't some renegade Presidential Tweet from some hacker scamp declaring war on Indonesia. Because if you saw it, would your first instinct be that, surely, the president's Twitter has been hacked? Or would you figure that Fox & Friends just ran a segment about it?

Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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