The president’s television is absolutely confidential, so who leaked Trump’s call records?

Trump’s phone calls are absolutely confidential, but Trump’s call records are not absolutely confidential, and the leaked content is not something that particularly needs to be kept confidential. This is just the content of Trump’s call with the President of Ukraine and has nothing to do with politics, military or anything else. Although it is a private call, the confidentiality is not that high.

According to White House regulations, before the President of the United States calls with leaders of other countries, staff from the National Security Council (NSC) will report the relevant situation to the President in advance. Afterwards, when the president has phone calls with foreign leaders, the NSC staff reporting on them will also be present to listen to the calls. Regarding the White House's regulations, USA Today pointed out that at least two NSC staff will be present when Trump calls Zelensky. At the same time, in the confidential office on the other side of the White House, a dedicated person will listen to the call and record the content. Classified as "call memo," the official name of the call is "Memcon."

It is worth mentioning that the content of the call was compiled and finalized very carefully. Take President Trump as an example. Before Trump calls with foreign leaders, in addition to NSC staff, he will also invite high-level experts in various fields to discuss it. These experts who participated in the pre-call discussion will also participate in the subsequent process of organizing written materials.

Larry Kudlow, chairman of the White House National Economic Council, said that there should be no problem with the content of the call between Trump and Zelensky, but keeping (the documents) separately may lead to accusations of abuse of power. . Brune, who worked at the NSC during the Obama administration, said the classified classification was developed to protect individual lives. The national security classification system would lose credibility if used to protect the president's political status.