What's the 'promise' T-rump privately made to a foreign leader that has shaken up Washington?

An opinion piece from the Boston Globe this morning should help you understand what's really going on:

"Trump has no public events on his schedule today, probably clearing the decks so he and his toadies can figure out how to explain away a troubling revelation by The Washington Post: This summer, during communications with a foreign leader -- one US official said it was a phone call -- Trump made a promise to that foreign leader that was so disturbing that an official in the US intelligence community filed a formal whistleblower report with the community's inspector general.

That inspector general, Michael Atkinson, concluded that the report was credible and Trump's conversation was a matter of "urgent concern," a level of threat that requires intelligence officials to notify Congress -- specifically, the oversight committees -- within seven days.

Atkinson turned the complaint over to his boss, the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, who read the details and then refused to turn them over to Congress -- apparently deciding that breaking the law to protect Dear Leader was far more important than protecting the country.

Atkinson, the IG, is testifying this morning before the House Intelligence Committee in a classified session closed to the public.

This is hardly the first time that the largemouth bass in the Oval Office has endangered national security. As recently as last October, he was using an unsecured iPhone to chit-chat with Lord knows who, calls that the Chinese and Russians eavesdropped on, freaking out intelligence officials who kept telling Trump to please knock it off.

And you may recall when the blunderbuss told two top Russian officials in the Oval Office about a top-secret intelligence operation in Syria, compromising the Israeli spy involved. And CNN reported that US intelligence officials were so worried about Trump's loose lips that they yanked a valuable, high-level US spy out of Moscow..."

Secret promises to a hostile leader who has attacked several democratic countries including the U.S. and who has spoken against democracy is not usual.

Usual is for a president to have competent advice and information from qualified officials before speaking with another leader - esp. a hostile one - which is made part of the record.

Are you going to defend Trump inviting the Taliban for lunch on 9-11 too?

So this promise involves Ukraine.