The leaks coming out of the Trump White House right now are totally bananas
Here are a few leaks that have come out of the Trump administration in just the last 24 hours:
* President Trump abruptly ended a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after condemning a refugee deal with the country and telling Turnbull "this was the worst call by far" he has had with a world leader.
* Trump threatened — his administration insisted it was "light-hearted" — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto with sending American troops into his country.
* The White House asked Judge Thomas Hardiman to drive toward D.C. to amp up the drama in advance of Trump's Supreme Court pick on Tuesday night. (Hardiman was passed over in favor of Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch.)
I wrote recently that not only was this the leakiest White House I'd ever seen but also that the leaks — whether purposely or not — seemed to cast the president as a child who badly needs to be managed. What's truly remarkable is that the leaking appears to be growing even more frequent and even more deleterious to President Trump's image within just the last few days.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/02/the-leaks-coming-out-of-the-trump-white-house-right-now-are-totally-bananas/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.7e3c12a69c6b
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Judge Hardiman agreed to help their cause, according to officials, although it was not clear if he said so explicitly. Trump administration officials told a number of news media outlets that Judge Hardiman was coming to the White House, according to a person close to the process.
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The man Judge Hardiman was going to see, it turns out, was Judge D. Brooks Smith, who serves with him on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, an old friend and professional sounding board.
Judge Smith said he did not think Judge Hardiman schlepped the two-plus hours to see him Tuesday at the behest of the Trump White House. He said the judge called him earlier that morning to say he would be dropping by for some advice and to talk over the events of the previous two weeks, when he emerged, for a time, as the front-runner. “I guess it’s true what they say — all roads lead to Altoona,” Judge Smith said with a chuckle.
Is this all just a distraction from more insidious behavior against the United States? The whole reason Tillerson was elevated to SoS was to bind oil deals between Russian owned oil company Resneft to other oil companies seeking to open up drilling in the Arctic.
all those leaks.
You know is must be pissing him off.
