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Mimi Launder
May 15, 2018
The White House is leaking. But thankfully Donald Trump is coming down hard - on both sides of the debate, just to make sure.
The president declared in a bizarre recent tweet that the "Fake News Media" was massively exaggerating the "so-called leaks" from the White House.
But, in the next sentence, he backed-up the same media reports by calling the leakers "traitors and cowards" and vowing "we will find out who they are!"
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People have been quick to point out the tweet's apparent lack of internal logic.
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It is not clear which leaks Trump is referring to.
But recent drama surrounding White House aide Kelly Sadler - the latest in a series of embarrassing leaks - might have prompted the tweet.
Sadler dismissed a statement by John McCain, who is fighting an aggressive brain cancer, which took issue with Trump's pick for CIA director. It emerged that Sadler told colleagues:
It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway.
McCain had urged the Senate not to confirm Gina Haspel as CIA director after taking issue with her involvement in a CIA interrogation programme that some have called torture.
Sadler was reportedly admonished by her bosses. However, the White House has refused to issue a formal apology for her remarks, which were leaked to the media.
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