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A top US diplomat revealed this week that his staffer overheard a loud phone conversation between Gordon Sondland, the US’s ambassador to the EU, and President Donald Trump at a restaurant in Kyiv.

Sondland was almost certainly spied on while talking to the president at the restaurant.

But that incident is just one out of many in which Trump or the people around him have compromised national security since he took office.

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Bill Taylor, the US’s chief envoy in Ukraine, revealed on Wednesday that a member of his staff overheard a conversation in Ukraine between President Donald Trump and Gordon Sondland, the US’s ambassador to the EU.

During that conversation, which took place on the phone, Taylor testified that his staffer heard Trump and Sondland discussing the politically motivated investigations Trump wanted the Ukrainian government to launch in order to aid his 2020 reelection effort.

According to Taylor, the conversation happened at a restaurant in Kyiv and the volume was apparently loud enough that they were overheard.

Sondland was almost certainly spied on while talking to the president in that restaurant, Politico reported. But this incident is just one out of many in which Trump or the people around him have compromised US national security.

Here are 8 other times Trump and his associates have risked national security