Trump has now tweeted that he shared terrorist information with the Russians and he was quite entitled to do so, more especially because it concerned IS. Russia has already lost a planeload of holidaymakers to an IS missile so, as they are US allies in that conflict, it was the right thing to do. I have learned that the President has the absolute right to do as he likes on matters of national security. He can classify and declassify as he chooses, so this was all a storm in a tea cup brewed in Washington and stirred by the New York Times.
It is up to the politicians, their staffers and press corps in Washington to now get behind the office of their President, whether they like him or not, whether he follows protocol or not. They are a democracy and the people elected him. So either Washington gets a grip of itself or, instead of a seat of government, it will look like a pantomime. It is one thing to oppose as in democratic opposition, but it is another to obsess, undermine, and obstruct. Because it is in the end not Trump who is demeaned but America itself.