American Bridge Rapid Response Director Emily Aden calls on National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to answer the following questions:
- Why did H.R. McMaster call the Washington Post “false” and state “it didn’t happen” when his statement didn’t deny the actual accusation in the story and the President admitted it this morning?
- How can any allied nation trust President Trump and the United States with intelligence information after this incident? Won’t this cost us in the fight against ISIS?
- If the highly classified information President Trump gave to the Russians wasn’t dangerous why did officials press the Washington Post to not report details because it would “jeopardize important intelligence capabilities?”
- If the highly classified information President Trump gave to the Russians wasn’t dangerous why did a White House official try to redact part of the transcript in internal memos?
- Was the American press kept out of the meeting between President Trump and the Russian officials out of fear he would do something like this? Or was it a premeditated plan to reveal highly classified information?
Published: May 16, 2017