Trump: We Have To Find The Leaker – Leaked We Had A Pilot Down In Iran
President Trump said there is going to be an investigation to find out who "leaked" the news that the U.S. still had a pilot stranded in Iran.
"All of a sudden, the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land, that was fighting for his life," Trump said. "We’re going to go to the media company that released it and we’re going to say, National security—give it up or go to jail."
"It became a much more difficult operation. Because a leaker leaked," he said.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: As you probably know, 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.
They basically said that we have one and there’s somebody missing. Well, they didn’t know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. So whoever it is, we think we’ll be able to find it out, because we’re going to go to the media company that released it and we’re going to say, “National security—give it up or go to jail.”
And we know who—and you know who—we’re talking about, because some things you can’t do. Because when they did that, all of a sudden the entire country of Iran knew that there was a pilot that was somewhere on their land, that was fighting for his life.
And it also made it much more difficult for the pilots and for the people going in to search for him. All of a sudden, they know that there’s somebody out there. They see all these planes coming in. It became a much more difficult operation.
Because a leaker leaked that we have one—we’ve rescued one—but there’s another one out there that we’re trying to get.
So actually, the country of Iran put out a major notice—you all saw it—offering a very big award for anybody that captures the pilot. So in addition to a hostile, very talented, very good, very evil military, we had millions of people trying to get an award.
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