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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:50 AM Jul 2017

Team Trump Hunts for 'Traitors' While the President 'Growls' at the TV

Who ratted out Donald Trump Jr. and his ‘Russian government’ emails? Everyone in the White House has a theory.

ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
LACHLAN MARKAY
07.12.17 6:45 PM ET

Three days after the Donald Trump Jr. email revelations broke, the White House seems stuck in purgatory, with aides still deeply unsure about who leaked the damaging information, and the president still yelling at the TV.

Theories on suspected leakers have ranged from Trump’s own family members and senior aides to Congressional overseers to Trump-hating law enforcement officials and members of the bureaucratic “deep state.”

A cascade of stories on Trump Jr.’s attempt to solicit dirt on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton from a Russian lawyer with ties to state security services set off a new round of questions over Trump campaign communications—and potential collusion with—Russian government agents.

In the White House, and among the president’s outside allies, the question was the same one that has animated Trump’s staff throughout the seemingly unending string of damaging Russia stories: who leaked it?

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Team Trump Hunts for 'Traitors' While the President 'Growls' at the TV (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2017 OP
Well, it was Kushner, wasn't it? cyclonefence Jul 2017 #1
Tiffany! MFM008 Jul 2017 #2

cyclonefence

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1. Well, it was Kushner, wasn't it?
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 09:53 AM
Jul 2017

He was reviewing his paperwork on contacts with Russians in preparation for testimony before glob knows which committee and holy shit! here's a meeting he failed to remember!!1! And Little Donnie was there.

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