Prresident Trump's mockery of his own intelligence services is coming back to bite him on the behind, as anyone who knows anything about politics - which seems to be anyone except the President - new it would.
The irony of Mr Trump campaigning and reading out large chunks of Mrs Clinton's private e-mails and saying gleefully that he 'loves Wikileaks' sees him hoist by his own petard, as the Whitehouse makes a sieve look like his Mexican wall in terms of solidarity!
Now his own Vice President has been made to look a fool because he went on national television to defend General Flynn, having not been told by the President, that his own security services had listened in to General Flynn discussing sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
You could be kind, and say that General Flynn was colossally naïve in imagining that intelligence operatives whose job involves listening to phone calls, were not going to be listening to his phone calls.
The President has no such get-out - he was told what was going on, he did not advice his VP, and he didn't act until The Washington Post exposed his duplicity.
It is clearer every day that President Trump never was, and never will be equipped for the machinations of Capital Hill. He is hugely out of his depth, and sinking deeper every day.
Has he been on TwitFace to call the general a 'so-called / mediocre' (delete as appropriate) Security Advisor yet?