The vicious circle of norm-breaking

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In the whistleblower story about President Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president, one important detail has changed.

The Trump White House, the whistleblower charged, tried to “lock down” the transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by placing it in a secret electronic system reserved for national security secrets. This ordinary conversation would have ordinarily been placed instead on an ordinary server used by multiple federal agencies.

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