POTUS calls WH leakers 'traitors'

"Behold my fickle finger of fate"

President Trump blasted White House leakers as "traitors" and vowed to hunt them down like dogs.

The leak in question (this time) was something that was said by an aide regarding the nomination of a CIA director, Gina Haspel. According to the source(s), White House aide Kelly Sadler responded to the announcement that John McCain will vote 'nay' on Haspel's nomination by saying, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway."

Rather than having Sadler apologize, or do the job himself, Trump tweeted: 

"The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!"

Yes, it's a good point about leakers being traitors to the president, but Sadler privately apologized to Meghan McCain, which tells me that she said those words. The fact that President Trump is calling it fake news dilutes the narrative when news is, indeed, fake. And the fact that nobody has issued a public apology troubles me.

If I were Trump, I would grill every person in that room when those words were said and fire anyone remotely suspected of leaking them. 

This has to stop.

But if I were Trump, I would also issue a sincere apology. I don't agree with almost all of McCain's political actions but nobody who is dying of cancer and may have only a few more months to live, deserves to be spoken about that way.

Oh, and I would fire Sadler in a heartbeat--John McCain's heartbeat.


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