Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Still leaking like a sieve

Trump was reportedly “fuming” on Tuesday night after The Washington Post reported that Trump’s national security advisers specifically instructed him not to congratulate Putin on his electoral victory. The Post reported that the materials read "DO NOT CONGRATULATE."

  The Hill
His national security advisers don't know him very well. That was the one thing that would GUARANTEE he'd congratulate Putin.
The network, citing an unnamed source, reported that the president was asking allies and outside advisers who they thought was responsible for the leak.

[...]

A White House official told the network that Kelly is furious that a confidential presidential briefing was made public just hours after the president’s phone call with Putin.

Kelly reportedly plans to address the leak on Wednesday as aides work to figure out how the information became public.

[...]

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to say whether the Trump administration believed Putin's victory was won fairly.

“We’re focused on our elections,” Sanders said during the press briefing on Tuesday. “We don’t get to dictate how other countries operate.”
Tell that to other countries.
The White House on Wednesday said that leaking President Trump’s briefing materials could be a “fireable offense.”

  The Hill
And no doubt WILL be if they find who did it.
The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that a section of Trump’s briefing materials for his call with Putin read “DO NOT CONGRATULATE” in all-capital letters.

Trump also did not follow instructions to condemn Putin over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the U.K., according to the Post.
 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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