Trump Takes Secrecy Seriously When It Suits Him

New York Times: “What constitutes an official secret in this new era in Washington, it turns out, seems to depend on who is asking and who is telling. The juxtaposition of two cases involving sensitive information in the same week reinforces just how situational President Trump’s approach to government secrecy can be.”

“And it illustrates Mr. Trump’s remarkable capacity for bending political reality to his will without worrying about facts or consistency. After all, this is a president who has made Canada and Europe out to be enemies not allies, who rewrote history to claim that Ukraine started the war with Russia and who sent lawyers to court to argue that Elon Musk is not really in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency.”

“This has become so common that the disparity in what constitutes a secret played out without much acknowledgment of the disparity.”