gcomeau wrote:biochem wrote:Everybody willing to put their name to the story claims that it is a flat out lie. Basically Trump and the Russians were having an intelligence sharing meeting regarding our mutual enemy ISIS. The anonomus source(s) claimed that Trump overshared. No one else actually in the meeting agrees with the anonymous source(s) (this assumes the anonymous source(s) was actually in the meeting and not passing on second hand information (or 3rd hand or 4th hand)).
Yeah.... I don't know what news you've been watching (I'm going to guess, reading Brietbart and Infowars?), but Trump copped to the leak this morning on twitter (while trying to make excuses for it and saying he totally meant to do it all along, for humanitarian reasons of all things). Sooo...
Actually I rarely look at either. I usually prefer primary sources.
In this case I prefer trumps Twitter feed in which he simply states that he shared Intel with the Russian vs our mutual enemy ISIS. We've been doing that since the Obama administration and it's frankly standard to share Intel with Frenemies and even enemies in this type of situation. The question is that did he overshare? He does not address that question in the tweets.
The original WP article was not impressive, lots of unnamed sources who are "senior". "Senior" could be anybody and no where does it indicate if the knowledge was first hand or part of the White House rumor mill. WP stories should be taken with a grain of salt since Bezos HATES Trump and has employed editors at the WP who make is very obvious that they hate Trump too.
In Erickson's article he states that the source is a former supporter of Trump and currently works at the White House. He feels justified in leaking rumors since Trump doesn't listen to criticism ( which translates to Trump doesn't listen to MY criticism and/or that of my political friends). Pretty much everybody in the country (except this guy apparently) knows that Trump doesn't take criticism well and know that you have to get one of the inner circle ( often but not exclusively Ivanka) to pass on criticism for you. If he can't work with Trump, he should quit not leak rumors to Trump's enemies.