Washington Post Story on Trump Giving Classified Intel to Russian Officials Breaks a Record

It beats its Access Hollywood tapes story for most concurrent views

A Washington Post article published this afternoon broke an internal record for most concurrently viewed story, and, in a pleasant twist, the story is hard news, rather than a viral distraction. What is not pleasant is the content of the story, a report by Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe that says President Trump revealed classified information about an Islamic State terrorist plot to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in a meeting last week:

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S.

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