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Updated · Zeteo · Jun 2

Trump's Leak Hunt Stalls 2 Months After Order as Internal Snitching Thwarts Identifications

Updated

Updated · Zeteo · Jun 2

Trump's Leak Hunt Stalls 2 Months After Order as Internal Snitching Thwarts Identifications

1 articles · Updated · Zeteo · Jun 2

Two months after Donald Trump ordered a government-wide hunt for leakers tied to reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, the effort has stalled without quickly identifying or punishing suspects.
April leaks about sensitive internal matters — including accounts of Trump's march to war with Iran for the forthcoming book "Regime Change" — triggered the crackdown and made the search a top priority for him.
By May, Trump had pushed the Justice Department to weigh raiding reporters' homes or jailing journalists until they revealed anonymous sources, underscoring how aggressively the White House pursued the case.
The hunt was hobbled by pervasive internal backbiting and "snitching" across the Trump-Vance administration, making it harder to isolate who leaked and blunting Trump's demand for swift retribution.

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