Trump Accidentally Admits Embarrassing Leak in Seething Ragepost
By Cameron Adams
President Donald Trump unleashed a furious rant about “treasonous leakers”—apparently confirming a bombshell report of a clash with Pete Hegseth.
The president lashed out in a raging 12:34 a.m. Truth Social post after the Washington Post revealed how he had berated Hegseth at Camp David on Friday.
Trump was furious at Hegseth because he felt the Defense Secretary had misled him about the Iran war leaving U.S. arms stockpiles seriously depleted, the Washington Post said.
Trump’s aide Karoline Leavitt first called the report “100% fake news” and said it had “literally never happened.”
But then Trump’s rant made clear that it had.
In his Truth Social post, he insisted America has “massive amounts” of munitions, adding cryptically “especially of certain types.”
He also claimed “large amounts” were being shipped to the U.S. as required, and that defense companies “are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history.”
“The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!” he added.
Hegseth, 46, shifted the blame for the weapons shortages and the lack of communication about them to his deputy, Stephen Feinberg, according to the Post.
Feinberg, 66, received an angry call from the president about the shortages Friday evening, and hastily held a “crisis” meeting with top Pentagon brass later that night, NBC News reported.
The president was said to have told Feinberg that the munition shortages impacted on whether he would expand military operations in Iran, and then challenged him on how the Pentagon would solve the problem. He also reportedly threatened to fire Feinberg during the call.
Earlier this week, Hegseth also became enraged over a CNN broadcast banner that reported that the U.S. military had used nearly 80 percent of its air-defense interceptors in the war with Iran, and that top commanders had warned the stockpiles were “dangerously low.”
“That banner is NOT TRUE @CNN. Shame on you,” he wrote on X. “We don’t hate the Fake News media enough.”
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House and the Pentagon for comment.
The Trump administration has been riddled with humiliating leaks already this year.
In their book Regime Change, White House reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailed secret emergency meetings in the Situation Room between the president’s aides, without Trump’s knowledge.
They were attempting to contain the scandal that erupted as a result of the administration’s botched handling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. The meeting, in July last year, included Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Communications Director Steven Cheung, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash Patel.
The group worked to develop a gesture of transparency that would convince the president’s MAGA base that he was sympathetic to their concerns. “Which itself was a problem, because he clearly wasn’t,” Haberman and Swan note.
CNN’s Brian Stelter reported a “massive leak hunt” was conducted at the White House when an excerpt of the book was released.
Another embarrassing leak came after Trump was forced to change planes when traveling back from a NATO summit in Turkey earlier this month.
Former national security officials familiar with the matter told MS NOW that the switch was due to concerns around the capabilities of the $400m jet, gifted to the president by the government of Qatar.
Wiles and Patel personally orchestrated an investigation into the source of information leaked to the media about the president’s newly gifted Air Force One, CNN reported at the time.
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