Trump's latest national security adviser is undercutting FBI Director Wray to quash report of new Russian meddling: report

In a scorching column for the Daily Beast, historian David Rothkopf accused Donald Trump's latest national security director, Robert O'Brien, of undercutting the United States intelligence services and uses his comments about recent reports of new Russian election meddling to make the case that he is contradicting FBI Director Christopher Wray to please the president. We never could have imagined that an enemy might take another approach altogether: infecting us with a presidential virus who this week gutted our national security leadership structures like a fish." The tip of the spear for Trump's assault on the national security apparatus would be O'Brien, who the columnist accuses of being under-qualified for his position and only exists to make Trump happy, while noting that O'Brien -- like recently announced acting Director of National Intelligence head Richard Grenell -- is "the least experienced and least qualified person ever to hold the high office to which he was appointed." Trump and O’Brien are giving it a lobotomy," the columnist wrote, " The O’Brien formula—placating Trump at all costs, denying the facts, and gutting the institution he was charged with running—is one we have seen elsewhere in the Trump national security team."