Thread by @NinaLMill

@olgaNYC1211 ‘“People had gotten really numb to him blurting out something he shouldn’t have,” one former national security staffer remarked.’

@olgaNYC1211 “There was a constant undercurrent in the Trump admin of [senior staff] who were genuinely horrified by the things...happening on these calls,” said one former White House official, on the condition of anonymity. “Phone calls that were embarrassing, huge..

@olgaNYC1211 Cont “mistakes, months and months of work that were upended by one impulsive tweet.” It’s noteworthy that these WaPo authors go into a kind of distancing, minimizing tone in a paragraph shortly after these quotes—

@olgaNYC1211 Cont2. “The Ukraine controversy has put a renewed focus on Trump’s un­or­tho­dox way of interacting with fellow world leaders in diplomatic calls.”
*unorthodox*
Going with just kinda of quirky, unusual— right now in real time as journalists!

@olgaNYC1211 ”created unneeded tensions with allies and sent troubling signals to adversaries or authoritarians....”. Minimizing analytic verbiage, then supporter Lindsey Graham’s words. While Putin’s inside the WH and the voter rolls. #StayFocused