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“In one of his 1st calls with a head of state, Trump fawned over #Russian🇷🇺President Vladimir Putin, telling the man who ordered interference in America’s 2016 election that he was a ‘great leader’ and apologizing profusely for not calling him sooner.”🤬

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🔥This entire @washingtonpost article is incredibly horrifying. They interviewed *12 former WH staffers* who describe Trump's calls with foreign leaders as "anxiety-ridden."

You don't say.

#Ukrainegate #TrumpRussia
@thespybrief
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@washingtonpost @thespybrief Former WH staffers worried Trump would "make promises he shouldn’t keep, endorse policies the US long opposed, commit a diplomatic blunder that jeopardized a critical alliance, or simply **pressure a counterpart for a personal favor**." Ding, ding ding.🛎️

washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
@washingtonpost @thespybrief "There was a constant undercurrent in the Trump administration of [senior staff]...genuinely horrified by the things they saw that were happening on these calls. Phone calls that were embarrassing, huge mistakes he made, months & months of work were upended by 1 impulsive tweet.”
@washingtonpost @thespybrief Former intelligence officer from the National Security Council says Trump "disturbs and frightens" career civil servants: “What a burden it must be to be stuck between your position of trust in the WH and another obligation you may feel to the American people to say something."
@washingtonpost @thespybrief “We couldn’t figure out early on why he was being so nice to #Russia🇷🇺,” one former senior administration official said.

H.R. McMaster (then NSA) launched an internal campaign to get Trump to be more "skeptical" of the Russians🇷🇺.

That went about as well as expected.🙄
@washingtonpost @thespybrief My God. In an April 2017 call, Trump told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte - who oversaw the extrajudicial killings of THOUSANDS of suspected drug dealers - that he was doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.”

Trump LOVES murderous dictators.🤬
@washingtonpost @thespybrief What a LOSER. Trump "pestered" Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to recommend him for a Nobel Prize, according to an official familiar with the call.🤦🏼‍♀️
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