The Deep State spent four years leaking classified briefings to destroy Trump's first term.
Now someone inside his own second-term cabinet is doing it again – handing war secrets to the same press corps that hates him.
Donald Trump called the Iran war leakers dirty dogs, and what he just promised them will make your day.
Trump Goes After the Insiders Feeding His Enemies
Thursday night on Truth Social, Trump dropped the hammer.
"Keep on leaking you dirty dogs! When we find you, you will pay a big price!!!" he posted.
The trigger was a Wall Street Journal report revealing that Tulsi Gabbard – Trump's then-Director of National Intelligence – had advised him against launching Operation Epic Fury on February 28.
Someone inside the administration walked those classified details straight to reporters.
https://twitter.com/radar_online/status/2100967893374558246?s=20
Trump also flagged a Washington Post editorial on the Iran war, calling it a "must read" – rare praise for a paper he once sued for $3.8 billion.
The piece, by Marc Thiessen, actually defended him – arguing the leaks only proved what a "courageous decision" Trump made when he acted against Iran's nuclear program while surrounded by advisors urging caution.
Even the Washington Post figured out the leakers were the problem.
This Is What Leaking Classified War Briefings Actually Costs
The Espionage Act makes leaking classified national security information a federal crime – up to ten years per count.
Reagan used it in 1984 to put Samuel Morrison in prison for leaking classified satellite photos to a defense publication.
Obama used it more aggressively than any president in history – prosecuting more leakers under the Espionage Act than all previous administrations combined.
The Left celebrated every one of those prosecutions.
Now that Trump is promising the same thing, suddenly leaking classified war briefings to the press is noble whistleblowing.
These aren't patriots.
They're bureaucrats who lost the internal argument and decided to take it to CNN.
https://twitter.com/factpostnews/status/2100958098487705616?s=20
Trump's team already caught one – Joe Kent, his director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned in protest over the Iran war after being suspected of leaking classified briefings for months.
He wasn't the last.
Gabbard herself was publicly rebuked by Trump on Air Force One after a damaging leak about the effectiveness of U.S. strikes emerged – then sidelined from a Senate intelligence briefing, then gone by May.
The people Trump trusted most to protect his war counsel were the ones feeding it to his enemies.
The Real Story the Leakers Are Trying to Write
Here's what they want you to believe: Trump ignored his advisors, launched a reckless war, and is now desperately spinning a disaster.
Thiessen's piece made the historical case for why that's wrong – leaders who dismissed the stated ambitions of dangerous regimes paid for it in catastrophic ways, and Trump was determined not to make the same mistake with a nuclear-armed Iran.
The leakers disagree with the call.
https://twitter.com/GuntherEagleman/status/2100883461120704530?s=20
So they're leaking to the press, watching gas prices climb, and counting on voters to blame Trump in November.
The Iran war has cost the U.S. $37.5 billion so far, per the Pentagon, spiked gas prices, and closed the Strait of Hormuz.
Those are real costs and voters feel every dollar.
But classified briefings don't end up in the Wall Street Journal by accident.
That's sabotage.
And Trump is hunting them down.
Sources:
- Marc Thiessen, "Trump's Iran decision was courageous," The Washington Post, September 2026.
- Tulsi Gabbard, interview on The Megyn Kelly Show, "Tulsi Gabbard on the Illegal Pentagon Leaks, Next Steps with Iran, and Trump's Courage to Choose Peace," MegynKelly.com, 2026.
- Reuters, "War in Iran has cost the US $37.5 billion so far," July 22, 2026.
- John Whitehead, "President Trump's Tools to Prosecute Leakers," Justia Verdict, February 17, 2017.
