THE LEAK: VERY VERY BAD

Following the shock­ing report that President Trump had revealed high­ly clas­si­fied infor­ma­tion last week dur­ing his Oval Office meet­ing with Russian offi­cials, some pun­dits were quick to ques­tion the orig­i­nal report­ing by The Washington Post, but one right-wing blog­ger explains why the report­ing should be tak­en seriously.

Erick Erickson, who typ­i­cal­ly takes sto­ries regard­ing Trump “with a grain of salt,” claimed to know one of the sources who leaked infor­ma­tion about the president’s meeting.

“What sets this sto­ry apart for me, at least, is that I know one of the sources. And the source is solid­ly sup­port­ive of President Trump, or at least has been and was dur­ing Campaign 2016. But the President will not take any inter­nal crit­i­cism, no mat­ter how polite­ly it is giv­en. He does not want advice, can­not be cor­rect­ed, and is too inse­cure to see any con­struc­tive feed­back as any­thing oth­er than an attack,” Erickson wrote.

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