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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho leaked the Putin 'congratulations'?
John Kelly?
John Baron?
John Miller?
Don Trump?
lark
(23,193 posts)I don't have a clue unless it's McMasters. He's the only one who doesn't seem fully batshit crazy, at least as far as I've seen so far.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)They're as cut throat as he is and might have leaked this out.
no_hypocrisy
(46,311 posts)set it up to make it look like Kelly did it.
Doodley
(9,176 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)The leak was in respect to what was on the cards.
tblue37
(65,541 posts)brag about how connected they are, how they are sounding boards and unofficial "advisors" to the POTUS. To prove their access, they tell reporters--or sometimes just other people who then tell reporters--what the president has said to them.
Trump himself and his big, bragging mouth is the source of most of the leaks. Just as he bragged to the Russians in the Oval Office about what excellent intelligence he has access to--and to prove it leaked super sensitive intelligence to them--he also leaks to his "friends" that he calls all the time to vent at.
Probably he was bragging about how he was warned "bigly" not to do something, but he did it anyway because he is the g-d POTUS, and how dare they tell him what he can and cannot do.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)in the meeting were Don the Con, Don the Con, and Don the Con. It's clear how they do things before showing someone the door.
Trump runs his mouth to outsiders and that's how the info gets leaked.
brooklynite
(94,974 posts)...according to another leak.
Botany
(70,643 posts)Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his victory in the presidential election, the Kremlin said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/trump-congratulates-putin-on-his-reelection-kremlin-says/2018/03/20/379effd0-2c57-11e8-8dc9-3b51e028b845_story.html?utm_term=.c0f304814e62
Chiyo-chichi
(3,592 posts)As with all other interactions between the White House and the Kremlin, we hear about it first (or only, in some cases) from the Kremlin.
spanone
(135,929 posts)typical
Chiyo-chichi
(3,592 posts)tanyev
(42,673 posts)Yeah, they tried to tell me not to congratulate Vladdy, but I sure showed them!
meadowlander
(4,413 posts)which showed that the text was in all caps.
I don't think if Trump had just been blabbing on the phone about it that the media would have had a copy of the actual memo.
I think McMaster is pissed about rumours of his demise and Tillerson being summarily fired and this is his last little f you to Trump before he quits.
Didn't Tillerson, Mattis and Mnuchin have a "suicide pact" so that if any of them was fired the other two would quit?
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-tillerson-fired-suicide-pact-mattis-mnuchin-2018-3?r=US&IR=T
So maybe it's Mattis...
The fact that it could be any of them, though, really tells you all you need to know.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)After all, Putin had congratulated Trump on his sham US election.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)moondust
(20,025 posts)Wanted to show everybody who's boss and attract attention to feed his narcissism?