The President's call with the Ukrainian President has huge ramifications for the US national security team, which must now manage the adverse impacts of Trump's actions, all while trying to do their day jobs, writes Samantha Vinograd for CNNOpinion
Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
President Donald Trump once hailed himself as the"most transparent president ever." This week, however, we learned that Trump's team took unprecedented steps to hide readouts of his conversations with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian President Vladimir Putin and members of the Saudi royal family.
Samantha VinogradThe impact of this revelation on US national security has already been devastating. While the House of Representatives investigates whether Trump violated the Constitution in allegedly seeking help from a foreign leader to interfere in the 2020 presidential elections, national security officials need to manage the adverse impacts of the President's actions in real time, all while trying to do their day jobs.
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