Every day, at least four or five front-page stories in The New York Times and The Washington Post blare headlines that sight unnamed sources from within the White House. Since he took office, there’s been a seemingly unending stream of leaks to the press of embarrassing and compromising information that’s fueled these stories.
In this clip, political strategist Karl Rove breaks down who he thinks are suspects in the cases of these leaks and what he thinks President Trump should do about them.
Even though Trump is a fairly savvy leader, he needs to be more careful about what he says and how he behaves as long as this issue continues to be a problem. With so many external forces (the Democratic National Committee, an army of activists being led by former President Obama and a cadre of globalists determined to remove the president from office) against him, Trump needs to take an extremely hard line of defense and actually start to go on the offensive against the leakers.
Trump has proven in the past that he’s adept at setting ‘traps’ for people who are aligned against him, as he proved by allegedly sending a non-incriminating tax return to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who hungrily took his bait. The trouble with trying to handle leakers the same way is that even a piece of completely false information used to smoke a leaker out could do the president more harm than good; Trump doesn’t need to be portrayed as being any more wily or conniving than he already is.
It may be time for the president to adopt a “scorched earth” policy. Watch as Fox’s Neil Cavuto elicits Karl Rove’s help in figuring out who most likely is the leak inside Trump’s White House.