White House Is Trying To Trap Leakers

Taegan Goddard, Political Wire
Sun, 07/12/2020 - 4:10pm

“President Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has told several White House staffers he’s fed specific nuggets of information to suspected leakers to see if they pass them on to reporters — a trap that would confirm his suspicions,” Axios reports. Said one former White House official: “Meadows told me he was doing that.

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