Many gop members of the senate and congress (pre 2018 midterms) caught on real fast and chose to ignore the threat to national security. The reasons of course involved who funded their getting into office, their desire to remain in office and how much they could personally gain. Some politicians never let chaos go to waste.
IMHO many of those gop members should be investigated as a threat to America.

It hasn't gotten any better.

Another bizarre item from the article:

One Trump appointee, conservative commentator Sebastian Gorka, would show up at random meetings, even though it was never clear whether he had the proper security clearance, and he would often raise unrelated points. One former White House official recalled Gorka saying such things as, “‘If you look at what Napoleon did ...’ and we’d all be like, ‘I don’t even know how to respond to that.’” (Asked for comment, Gorka told a POLITICO reporter, “Take a long run off a short pier, you utter hack.&rdquo