Trump Denies White House Has a Leaking Problem

President Trump tweets:

The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!

Jonathan Chait: “People were already invoking the Republican Party’s rejection of ‘the reality-based community’ and its ‘epistemic closure’ long before Donald Trump took it over. But it has taken Trump to elevate the Republican Party’s reality-altering habits to a level that is literally Orwellian.”

“‘Doublethink,’ as George Orwell wrote, ‘means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’ Even Big Brother had enough respect for his audience to insist that they had always been at war with Oceania, or whoever they were at war with at the moment. You didn’t see Big Brother calling Oceania his great ally and enemy in consecutive sentences.”