I don’t know why you’d proceed in this way. It’s not a crime. The direction should go to General Kelly to fire up the lie detector
See my post #18 and read the op-ed. You can’t threaten the life of the President without consequence.
“I don’t know why you’d proceed in this way. It’s not a crime. The direction should go to General Kelly to fire up the lie detector”
Then you are buying the NYT narrative that this hit piece was indeed written by a disloyal staffer within the Trump administration? Why would you believe them?
Trump’s choice of words is very interesting - he seems to be casting doubt on whether the piece was written by someone within his administration, as claimed. Note that he is asking Sessions to investigate who wrote it, not who leaked it. Note that he’s questioning NYT journalistic integrity. Note that he’s making the NYT decision to publish it an issue of national security. Never in Trump’s statement does he concede that so done in his administration leaked anything.
I think what Trump is doing is very clever - he is calling the NYT’s bluff - challenging them to put up or shut up - to prove that the source is truly someone from within the Trump Administration.
By making it an issue of national security, Trump has upped the anti:
If it is truly a leak, Trump’s White House looks bad, because the WH lack of control over leaks is jeopardizing national security.
If it is NOT a leak and is fake news, invented by the NYT, the NYT looks very bad - by knowingly publishing misinformation intended to sabotage and disrupt the office of the commander in chief - the NYT is jeopardizing national security.
Apparently, Trump suspects it is fake news and is putting the NYT in a box where they have to try and prove its not.
Either way, Trump wins, because the only way the NYT can prove it is a leak is by revealing who the leaker is.