Former diplomat and Obama White House staffer Brett Bruen told USA Today: “We’re entering a dangerous territory of telephone games, where Trump is going to have private chats with foreign leaders, and they’re going to tell their teams one thing, and Trump is going to tell our national security team another.”

President-elect Donald Trump recently claimed that he had a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he asked Putin to not further escalate his war in Ukraine. However, the Kremlin denied that such a call had ever taken place,