The nuclear stuff Don the Con took was pretty bad. This, if he traded it via an encrypted Melania Trump NFT to a Saudi or Russian national, could be worse for the US in the near-term.
Back when Trump was warming up to visiting Russian spies in the Oval Office bragging about his firing “nut” James Comey incapable of reading the room, with only a Russian news outlet documenting the interactions, Trump shared classified intel to impress his friends. That document, an Israeli shared intelligence report of a newer ‘suitcase bomb’ threat design intended to take down a plane, was procured by an intelligence officer that infiltrated ISIS or was approached and recruited by Israel to protect both the US and Israel spying.
Trump sharing the key points of mutual security with the Russians, had he had the material ran through the Intelligence community and scrubbed of most of it, is a sensible thing to do. Giving two Russian spies, er Diplomats unreacted documents like that, not even procured by the US, with only a Russian film crew, was about the worst thing that could happen to wedge the US national security apparatus from it’s partners in the world.
You bet Russia ran with that. Here is a sample of that meeting, from my book, Donald Trump Explained.
Putin had to choose how to best push this intel out so US allies would be reluctant in sharing, without losing his easily manipulated asset in the White House, opting to use Russian press, lie to Trump about the evils of the untrustworthy media that Putin has no control over, and flatter Trump as much as possible.
Trump, initially angry, bought into Putin’s lie and the two were the best of friends.
Back to the present.
If Trump has indeed stolen personally identifiable information leading to the liquidation of US assets in the field, it is my opinion he should be tried not only for espionage but for murder and treason. US intelligence gathering abroad would be effectively reset, perhaps near impossible to reconstruct before another significant international threat like 9-11 surprises and devastates.