The back and forth between Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi over the last few days has been called childish, but now it’s also being called dangerous.
After Donald Trump prevented the Speaker of the House and a Congressional Delegation from using a military plane to travel to Afghanistan, the Representatives made plans to fly commercial to Afghanistan. But Trump revealing a previously information on the classified trip made it a security risk: “the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service provided an update threat assessment detailing that the President announcing this sensiitve travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops.”
Here’s his full statement.
Pelosi’s office says Trump’s own State Dept determined that “the President announcing this sensitive travel had significantly increased the danger to the delegation and to the troops, security, and other officials supporting the trip.” Thus, trip is postponed. pic.twitter.com/95tqruZcwa
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 18, 2019
But Pelosi’s office claims it’s more sinister than that. According to NPR, multiple administration sources leaked the commercial travel plans as well.
Speaker's office caught word that "multiple" admin sources tried to leak the commercial travel plans this AM. https://t.co/TbkqJd7SmC
— Susan Davis (@DaviSusan) January 18, 2019
The White House hasn’t responded to this news yet. A top Republican though did say that what Trump did wasn’t right.
President Trump denying Speaker Pelosi military travel to visit our troops in Afghanistan, our allies in Egypt and NATO is also inappropriate.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 17, 2019