Posting on Truth Social with absolute fury at his back, President Donald Trump accused the Democrats of illegally leaking information about the Defense Intelligence Agency’s report on the Iran strikes to the press, namely CNN and the New York Times, a leak that bedevilled the Trump Administration and spread potentially untrue claims about the attack.
As background, the DIA released a report in the days after the attack in which it claimed that the B-2 bomber strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was largely unsuccessful in that it only did enough damage to the facilities to cause a few months’ worth of repairs rather than permanent damage or total destruction.
That report was then leaked to the media. Particularly, both CNN and the New York Times got hold of it and then reported on it as a means to attack the Trump Administration and its strike. However, it appears that it was an early report and lacked much in-depth analysis, and so might have been incorrect in assessing the damage.
Now, it appears that the leak of the DIA report came from the Democrats who received the briefing on what happened. At least, that is what president Trump alleged as part of a string of furious posts about the leak and media use of it to attack him on his Truth Social platform on Friday, June 27.
In the post accusing them of doing so, a post that came shortly before noon on Friday, the president argued both that the B-2 strike on the sites was “perfect” and that the Democrats had leaked it. He said, making the accusation and calling for their prosecution, “The Democrats are the ones who leaked the information on the PERFECT FLIGHT to the Nuclear Sites in Iran. They should be prosecuted!”
In a post that came just minutes before that one, the president also argued that the reporters who published the DIA report that was leaked to them should be fired for publishing false information and doing so with bad intentions. He said, “FAKE NEWS REPORTERS FROM CNN & THE NEW YORK TIMES SHOULD BE FIRED, IMMEDIATELY!!! BAD PEOPLE WITH EVIL INTENTIONS!!!”
And, in another post that came around the same time, the president commented on the press conference that exposed the leak and lies, and again called for those who pushed the falsehoods to be fired. He said, “One of the greatest, most professional, and most “confirming” News Conferences I have ever seen! The Fake News should fire everyone involved in this Witch Hunt, and apologize to our great warriors, and everyone else!”
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That’s not all. In yet another post on the subject, the president indicated that both of the media organizations might be considering firing those reporters involved in pushing the false information, writing, “Rumor is that the Failing New York Times and Fake News CNN will be firing the reporters who made up the FAKE stories on the Iran Nuclear sites because they got it so wrong. Lets see what happens?”
Watch Trump and Hegseth sound off on the matter here: