Today, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended President Trump’s past effusive praise for WikiLeaks, in light of the outlet’s leak of classified CIA documents this week.
“There is a big difference between disclosing John Podesta’s Gmail accounts and the back-and-forth about his undermining of Hillary Clinton and his thoughts on her on a personal level, and of leaking classified information,” Spicer said, deflecting from questions about how Trump could have previously applauded WikiLeaks for its actions during the 2016 campaign. “There is a massive, massive difference between those two things, and I think it’s—again—the interest and the outrage that occurred last year by Democrats about a lot of leaks, it’s interesting we’re hearing not as much outrage now when it comes to some of our issues of national security,” he continued. Read more at THE HILL.
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