Rush Should Regret Boasting About Trump's Meeting with Lavrov

Here's how Rush Limbaugh began his monologue the morning after President Trump fired James Comey:

Hi, friends. This is great. I have been laughing all morning long. I have been laughing starting with last night. Can we agree that Donald Trump is probably enjoying this more than anybody wants to admit or that anybody knows? So he fires Comey yesterday. Who’s he meeting with today? (laughing) He’s meeting with the Soviet, the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov! I mean, what an epic troll this is. The Democrat Party is going bananas — completely, totally unhinged — on the road to literal insanity.

Well, according to The Washington Post, during that meeting Lavrov Trump revealed highly classified information to him and the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak:

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.

The information the president relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.

The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said Trump’s decision to do so endangers cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and the National Security Agency.

Would President Reagan have ever divulged classified information to Eduard Shevardnadze in the Oval Office? Better still how would have Rush reacted if President Obama had disclosed plans for for the bin Laden raid before informing his cabinet? Rush Limbaugh should regret boasting about President Trump's meeting with Lavrov. But he won't. Like most conservative talk radio hosts, his brand is tethered to Trump. He worships at his altar and must render unto him without question or doubt. 

As of right now, the liberal reaction to Trump's firing of Comey should be the least of his concerns. Because when it is all said and done, President Trump can no more be trusted handling classified information than Hillary Clinton.