Donald Trump faced a bipartisan outcry on Monday after reports that the US president had endangered national security by sharing highly-classified information in an Oval Office meeting with Russia’s top diplomat.
Mr Trump revealed details of an Isis plot, breaching the trust of an unnamed ally that gathered the information, in a meeting last week with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, and Sergei Kislyak, Moscow’s ambassador, the Washington Post reported.
The details Mr Trump revealed — including the plot’s intention to use laptops to attack aeroplanes and the city in which it had been uncovered — were so sensitive they had been withheld from some US allies and tightly restricted within the US government, the Post reported.