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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYou know its not the Democrats who are leaking to the Press, its Trump's staff
Lets be honest, the amount of leaks is just unprecedented. Everyday its multiple bomb shells. And these bomb shells are coming from leaks on his own staff.
It tells me that it must be much worse than we think. Trump must be more infantile, more unhinged, more foolish than even we think. So much so, his own staff is sabotaging him. And they are doing it to get Trump removed from the White House.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)PuppyBismark
(595 posts)wishstar
(5,272 posts)rather than just a staff shakeup
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)They realize that the Congress controlled by their own party is not going to save them (US!). So, they have no choice, but to leak. It's not just the WH. I'm pretty sure there were some strategic leaks by the IC to get the ball rolling.
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)One really wonders whether various offices in the White House are bugged, and whether President Trump's phone has been hacked to use as a listening device.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)Last week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer conducted a surprise phone check on his staff in an effort to stamp out leaks, according to a new Politico report. Spicer, upset that information had leaked out of a previous meeting he had held with roughly a dozen members of his staff, ordered another meeting and had staff surrender their phones and other electronic devices when they arrived. The search which applied to both personal and government-issued phones was overseen by White House lawyers, and Spicer then warned staffers against using privacy-focused messaging apps like Signal and Confide, noting that doing so violates the Federal Records Act. He also, per Politicos sources, warned the group of more problems if news of the phone checks and the meeting about leaks was leaked to the media, which it promptly was.
President Trump and his administration have been repeatedly complaining about the many leaks that have come out about their governing efforts, and Spicers is not the first attempt to get a handle on the problem. The State Department recently sent a legal memo to its staff outlining the dangers of leaking, which we know about because the memo was itself leaked. Then on Friday, President Trump criticized the FBI and called for an investigation after sources at the agency leaked that FBI officials had refused White House requests for them to leak information to the press in order to dispute leaked accounts of contact between Trump officials and the Russian government. Then again, while Trump has called for going after leakers, he has simultaneously accused news organizations of inventing the sources of the leaks, as well as insisted that the leaks are real, but the news based on the leaks is fake.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/02/spicers-staff-leaks-news-of-phone-check-targeting-leaks.html
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)One wonders whether the Russians have bugged numerous offices, hacked phones, infiltrated White House staff, all in an attempt to discredit the US political system.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,613 posts)Some of the insiders are a frightened as we are.