In the aftermath of a whistle blower bringing Mr Trump’s audacious abuse of power to light, the least transparent Presidency in the modern era, is getting even less transparent.
By Alex Marquardt, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown,
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders are also disseminated to a far smaller group of people inside the White House, those administration sources say, continuing an effort to limit the number of people with insight and information about the conversations.
It amounts to a concerted effort to prevent Trump's conversations -- which officials have said sometimes veer off into unguarded or undiplomatic territory -- from becoming known to even those inside the administration.
Earlier in the administration, and during past presidencies, a larger number of officials would be allowed to listen to phone calls with foreign leaders. That includes aides with specific expertise in the countries being phoned or officials focused on an issue set being discussed on the call.
Now, when the President speaks on the phone with world leaders, he's joined on the call by just a handful of others appointed by Trump to the highest level of the administration, multiple White House officials say.
Mr Trump is so obsessed with covering his tracks he is known to
eat documents.
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