Trump considers forcing journalists to reveal sources who leaked Iran report | Donald Trump
Donald Trump said that the US intelligence report, which evaluates the effect of the US intelligence report to reveal the resources of the latest American military strikes, said that the challenging journalists, and the president claimed that the administration could prosecute these journalists and resources.
In an interview with FOX News presenter Maria Bartiomo, Trump doubled the 21 June air strikes that Iran’s nuclear weapon program has successfully injured Iran’s nuclear weapons program for some Iranian facilities. Despite the allegations that Iran had moved before strikes, he insisted that the attacks destroyed the basic enriched uranium stocks.
Trump rejected the leaked intelligence assessment – this claimed that strikes only disrupt Iran’s nuclear development temporarily – as incomplete and prejudiced. The report between US deputies and intelligence officials concluded that the damage was significantly less than the Trump administration claims to the public.
The President attacked both democratic deputies and media members for sharing the sections of the classified analysis. He then threatened legal consequences for those responsible.
During the interview, Bartiromo referred to an article that Trump shared on his social media days. He wrote: “The Democrats are the people who leak the information on the perfect flight to the nuclear areas in Iran. They must be prosecuted!”
Trump later revealed that they should be “prosecution”.
“Especially who?” Bartiomo asked.
Trump replied: “You can find – if they want, they can easily learn.”
Recently, Trump has targeted CNN and New York Times reports on strikes. He condemned the scope as “patriotic ve and even swimed the possibility of legal action.
Together with the two points, the US Defense Intelligence Agency showed that preliminary findings show that strikes have only a limited success. According to the assessment, the bombings postponed Iran’s nuclear ambitions for several months, but it stopped explicitly destroying the program.
Sunday, A social media account Ayatollah, which belongs to the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei accused Trump for his last US military strikes to “do nothing” and then to “exaggerate and keep secret to cover the truth and keep secret”.
On the contrary, Trump insisted that three nuclear facilities were “destroyed”.
Explained how the administration can follow the resources of the leak.
Trump said, “He went up and the reporter ‘National Security – Who gave?’ “You have to do this. And I doubt that we will do such things. “
In the United States, the constitution in the US usually will not have to reveal the sources of journalists – but the privilege of the reporter has limits as it is known as verbally.
Before his comments to Bartiomo, the President threatened to sue CNN and New York Times to publish articles about the pre -intelligence report.
In a letter timesFor Trump, a lawyer asked for a “wrong”, “slander” and “non -patriotic” part of the output that the article has damaged the reputation of the president and to apologize.
