06-08-2017, 09:45 AM
(06-08-2017, 07:30 AM)ballsofsteel Wrote: The POTUS is always complaining about all the leaks that are happening. The Wash Post and NY Times are always reporting information that their "sources" have given them concerning conversations and what not going on in the white House, information that the White house no doubt would rather keep hushed up. Isn't it obvious that the leaks are coming from someone in the WH who is somewhat privy to alot of info and I don't mean a butler standing around. These "sources" are either someone being paid off by these papers and are doing it for money or Trump got some traitors mixed in with his admirers there that want to see him fail. Maybe the traitors work for some of those Repubs that trump humiliated and made fun of in the Primary.
The problem is that the motivation for leaks can be quite a few things. Money, power, braggadocio, disloyalty, and in some cases the WH itself will give the go ahead for leaks. It can be hard to determine what the situation really is. Given what has been said about the atmosphere in the WH, I suspect that a lot of the leaks aren't monetarily motivated. I think a lot of it is position jockeying and faction based within the administration itself. Some of it, I think, is put out by the WH itself in an effort to lower expectations and/or to create a foil out of the media.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
