Sources in the White House describe 'borderline chaos'
following recent allegations about Trump team
White House staff are reportedly in "survival mode”
after allegations surfaced about contact with Russian intelligence
officials and the resignation of Donald Trump's former national
security advisor, Micheal Flynn.
US news coverage has been dominated by unconfirmed
allegations members of The US President's campaign team were in contact with
the Kremlin - a claim denied by Moscow.
Mr Trump has suggested that his own intelligence agencies
were illegally feeding classified information to journalists, deepening a
dispute that started with last year's findings over Russian interference in the
election.
It came months after he told supporters in Pennsylvania
"I love Wikileaks", having previously "sarcastically"
called on Russia to hack and publish Ms Clinton's emails, during the
presidential campaign.
As the controversy has rumbled on, a White House source has
described the "borderline chaos" at the heart of Mr Trump's
administration.
“Some staff are in survival mode," they told the Axios website, adding
that they are "scared to death".
Another West Wing insider added that the current
situation “leads back to the fact that nobody is in charge."
Mr Trump’s former national
security, Michael Flynn, resigned earlier this week after
admitting that he gave “incomplete information” to Vice President Mike
Pence over phone calls to the Russian ambassador in December.
It later emerged that Mr Trump had been warned by
former attorney general Sally Yates about Mr Flynn’s conduct and had
failed to act on it.
Fresh allegations of
repeated contact between members of Mr Trump's team and Russian intelligence
officials during the US election campaign, later emerged.
The New York Times reported that American law
enforcement and intelligence agencies found “repeated contacts” between Mr
Trump’s campaign staff and associates and senior Russian intelligence
operatives in the year leading up to the the presidential vote.
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