For months, US allies have anxiously wondered if President Donald Trump could be trusted with some of the world’s most sensitive national security secrets.
Now, just a few days before Trump’s debut on the international stage, he’s giving allies new reasons to worry. A US official said Trump revealed highly classified information about an Islamic State plot to senior Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting last week. The information had been obtained by a U.S. partner and shared with Washington, according to the official.
“If it proves to be true that the American president passed on internal intelligence matters, that would be highly worrying,” Burkhard lischka, a senior German lawmaker, said in a statement to The Associated Press.