... what about President Trump? We know of at least two secrets he told the Russians, and one of these was a secret of Israel's and not the U.S., yet President Trump remains very popular in Israel probably because of his moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. His popularity must be further enhanced by his supporting Israel's claim to the Golan heights.
So we know that President Trump has told secrets to the Russians, and what does he do with all those private meetings and telephone calls to Putin, some/many without an American translator (He uses the Russian translator)? * The only safe thing for our security is to assume that any secret Trump knows, the Russians know also.
So how are our security agencies handling this?
Note added September 13, 2019: So CNN’s scoop on Monday about the exfiltration of a top American intelligence asset in Russia is, like so much in the Trump era, both staggering and not at all surprising. According to CNN, in a secret mission in 2017, America “extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government,” partly because of worries that Trump’s cavalier handling of intelligence information could expose the person. On Monday evening, The New York Times added to the story, reporting that the source was a Russian official whose job provided “access to the highest level of the Kremlin.”
* According to a NY Times article on January 15, 2019, there are known to be 9 phone call, 4 letters, and 5 meetings between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-putin-hide-conversations-778402/
** https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/15/us/politics/trump-putin-meetings-phone-calls.html
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