puts don in a tough spot.
if he reopens them he may well send a message to diplomats and the public he doesn’t care if they are harassed while on assignment and doesn’t believe the intelligence agencies that say Russia was behind it, which includes the FBI as reported by all major news outlets .
if he doesn’t reopen them he is admitting he was wrong about it or didn’t know what was going on.
He’ll reopen them and tell the naysayers to go play with themselves.
They’re never going to love him anyway.
They made themselves irrelevant.