Trump Suggests He’ll Pressure CNN/NYT Reporters to Give up Their Sources on Iran Strike Stories — And Then Prosecute the Leakers

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Trump: “Then we had to suffer the fake news, with the fake news in CNN and The New York Times was saying, ‘Well, maybe it wasn’t as good as Trump said. Maybe it wasn’t totally obliterated. It was destroyed, but not...’ — you know, just horrible. I could see it happening, and they tried to build that into a story, and then it turned out, no, it was obliterated like nobody’s ever seen before. And that meant the end to their nuclear ambitions, at least for a period of time. You know, a lot of people have said, ‘Well, do you think they’re going to start again?’ I said, the last thing they want to do right now is think about nuclear. They have to put themselves back into condition, in shape.”
BARTIROMO: “You tweeted, the Democrats leaked an intelligence — “
Trump: “They should be prosecuted.”
BARTIROMO: “Who specifically? Do we know who did it? Will you be able to find out?”
Trump: “They could find out if they wanted. They could find out easily. You go up and tell the Reporter, ‘National security. Who gave it?’ You have to do that that. And I suspect we’ll be doing things like that.”

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