Trump Conducts Witch Hunt Of WH Staff To Sniff Out Woodward’s Sources

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 16: US President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 16, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images)
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As President Donald Trump stews in anger about Bob Woodward’s White House memoir “Fear,” he is leading the charge to sniff out who gave Woodward information for the book, according to a Wednesday CNN report.

Per CNN’s sources, Trump is measuring people’s innocence by how vigorously they denounce Woodward’s reporting as untrue.

At this point, chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis are in his favor, per CNN. Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster and former economic adviser Gary Cohen are reportedly objects of his suspicion.

Trump’s witch hunt through the White House is apparently part of the White House’s last-minute, scrambling PR plan. “You don’t discredit Bob Woodward. You discredit the motives of the people,” a source told CNN.

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  1. He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much.

    Orwell
    1984

  2. Yes, the ‘witch hunt’ is entirely being led by youknowwho.

  3. Avatar for topcat topcat says:

    The butler John Kelly is the snitch.

  4. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    Nursing note, 11:35 p.m.

    “Pt. agitated, pacing in bedroom. Says he hears voices through the walls, demands security sweep of entire floor. Sent asst. to investigate, returns from FLOTUS residence, reports TV tuned to Colbert show at full blast. No action necessary.”

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