WH Officials Saw Trump as ‘Danger to National Security’ and Often ‘Delusional’ During Calls to Foreign Leaders
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Date: June 29, 2020 07:34PM
Carl Bernstein unveiled a reportedly damning indictment of President Donald Trump’s calls with foreign leaders during his first term, citing administration officials as being alarmed that Trump’s lack of preparation and naive belief in his own negotiation skills represented a “danger to national security,” and was often “delusional.”
President Donald Trump was so consistently unprepared for discussion of serious issues, so often outplayed in his conversations with powerful leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Erdogan, and so abusive to leaders of America’s principal allies, that the calls helped convince some senior US officials _ including his former secretaries of state and defense, two national security advisers and his longest-serving chief of staff — that the President himself posed a danger to the national security of the United States, according to White House and intelligence officials intimately familiar with the contents of the conversations.