Tapper: ‘Fair to Say’ Trump’s Not Only Inconsistent About Use of Anon. Sources, He’s Not a Good Judge of Them

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TAPPER: "Now President Trump is not the first president to hate leaks. The Obama White House not only criticized media outlets for using anonymous sourcing, they went after whistleblowers and leakers using the espionage act more than every single previous president combined. The Obama administration threatened to jail reporters for not sharing their names of their sources. You know, Mr. Trump’s not the first one to express frustration about this, but this is the same president who just this morning retweeteded this story from a White House-approved channel, Fox, a story that reads, quote, 'A December meeting between Jared Kushner and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower focused on Syria, a source familiar with the matter told Fox News Monday.' A single anonymous source in a story the president sent out to his 30 million followers. The president, I think it’s fair to say, is not only inconsistent about the use of anonymous sources, he’s not a particularly good judge of them."