“So, I naively went along with it.”
Maybe I am exploiting hindsight, but I can’t get over how Trump brought in so many naïve, fresh off the cabbage truck, suckers into national security positions. Who was the White House Counsel who failed to train all staff never to answer questions without notifying his office first? If a team of Russian spies had walked in, said they were from the National Archives, and give us all your most secret files like your predecessors did, these folks would have probably done it.
Comey or McCabe bragged about targeting the Trump admin during the transition because they were obviously still getting things set up. There might not have even been a WH counsel when much of this happened.