President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that an untimely leak put a downed service member’s life in danger.
Speaking from inside the White House, Trump threatened the media figures who published the leak with incarceration.
On Saturday, U.S. forces rescued a weapons systems officer wounded after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down an F-15E fighter jet.
That action occurred one day after U.S. forces rescued the aircraft’s pilot in a remote area of southwestern Iran.
Despite the successful missions, the president on Monday voiced his extreme displeasure with the leaker and the unnamed media outlet.
“These two extraordinary rescues — because it was two,” Trump said in a clip posted to the social media platform X.
Then, as often happens, the president paused his prepared remarks to follow a different train of thought.
“And as you probably know,” he continued, “we didn’t talk about the first one for an
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