He did not save his name. what he did was show that he cannot keep high level confidential things confidential and that he should therefore never be trusted again or offered the opportunity to be in any position to break a trust again.
I have to wonder why anyone would want a job in the Trump administration. You know going in that the guy despises the ides of accountability, and will rarely, if ever, heed your professional advice. You’ll spend a lot of time defending and / or being forced to cover up questionable behavior. And may God have mercy on your soul if you ever report questionable behavior to the appropriate parties. You will have around 63 million people ready to execute you.
And the biggest kick in the gut of all is that when Trump has had his way with you and / or gets bored with you, he’ll throw you under the bus. Then, you realize that by aligning with Trump, you pretty much burned your bridges with anyone and everyone else who would be in a position to help you kickstart your career.
They pick a soundbite and then play it over and over and over to represent it as what was said. It’s the same thing they did in Charlottesville and the liberal mode of operandi.
Being published in The Atlantic we should know it’s completely biased without reading further.
When you do look at it though look at how carefully and very selectively one and two word quotes are inserted between the authors own bias and partisan opinions.