Donald Trump on Monday threatened an unnamed media outlet that reported on a downed military airman in Iran, warning that the disclosure risked jeopardizing an ultimately successful rescue mission.
A first airman was rescued within hours after the plane was shot down. The second, identified as a weapons system officer, was rescued early Sunday.
Trump told reporters in the White House Briefing Room during a midday press conference that on Friday “we didn’t talk about the first one for an hour. And then somebody leaked something, which we’ll hopefully find, that leaker. We’re looking very hard to find that leaker.”
He said the media outlet “basically said that we have one and there’s someone missing. Well, they didn’t know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. So whoever it was, we think we’ll be able to find it out, because we’re going to go
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