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White House under siege as scandal follows scandal - and it won't end soon

Allegedly, the POTUS has compromised important intelligence at a meeting with Russians

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Kumuda Simpson | The Conversation
The White House appears to be in disarray after The Washington Post alleged that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified intelligence about Islamic State to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia’s ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak.

And then, the next day, The New York Times reported new allegations that Trump asked James Comey, whom he later sacked as director of the FBI, to close the investigation into contacts between the president’s then national security adviser, Mike Flynn, and Russia.

But, first, the Russian problem. The Post article asserted that current and former intelligence officials