Tony Blinken, a former deputy secretary of State in the Obama administration, slammed President Trump, saying the country needs a commander in chief “who knows better.”
“He’s the president of the United States. We have to have a president who knows better,” Blinken told CNN’s David Axelrod.
{mosads}”It’s one thing to say, ‘Look, you know, he didn’t know, he couldn’t know, this is not his background, this is not where he comes from’ … But unfortunately it is now his number one responsibility to know better as President the United States.”
According to CNN, Blinken also called the reports that Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to consider ending the investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn “a real problem.”
Blinken further criticized Trump for reportedly sharing classified information with Russia, arguing that U.S. allies usually expect their intelligence to be kept “very, very, very tightly compartmentalized.”
“[Putin] managed to instigate multiple counterintelligence investigations and now he’s managed in effect to cause the president to fire the FBI director who is investigating him because of concerns about collusion with Russia,” he said.
“Every step along the way, either knowingly or not, wittingly or not, President Trump has aided and abetted this effort at delegitimizing our institutions and our leaders.”