From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump's phone calls alarm US officials - "One person familiar with almost all the conversations with the leaders of Russia, Turkey, Canada, Australia and western Europe described the calls cumulatively as 'abominations' so grievous to US national security interests that if members of Congress heard from witnesses to the actual conversations or read the texts and contemporaneous notes, even many senior Republican members would no longer be able to retain confidence in the President.
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"Two sources compared many of the President's conversations with foreign leaders to Trump's recent press 'briefings' on the coronavirus pandemic: free form, fact-deficient stream-of-consciousness ramblings, full of fantasy and off-the-wall pronouncements based on his intuitions, guesswork, the opinions of Fox News TV hosts and social media misinformation.
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"The calls 'are so unusual,' confirmed a German official, that special measures were taken in Berlin to ensure that their contents remained secret. The official described Trump's behavior with Merkel in the calls as 'very aggressive' and said that the circle of German officials involved in monitoring Merkel's calls with Trump has shrunk: 'It's just a small circle of people who are involved and the reason, the main reason, is that they are indeed problematic.' [ed. note: circle shrank because if contents leaked, the German people would rebel against American leadership]"
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