WH pool reporting Trump statement revoking Brennan's security clearance originally dated 7/26

[highplainsdem]

Tweets from CNN's Kaitlan Collins

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and Jeff Zeleny

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So the timing of its release was obviously at least partly an attempt at distraction.

[GusBob]

1. Omarosa who? Good timing that. Nt

[jcgoldie]

2. I understand the distraction thing but what's strange...

...Seems to me many times Trump's shiny objects are more damaging than whatever he was trying to draw attention away from... the Omarosa book thing is a bit of a sideshow unless she has some goods related to the Russia investigation... but taking away security clearances for political reasons looks petty and scared to a wider swath of people I'm guessing.

[Anon-C]

3. Yes definitely an attempt to flip the script and go on offense.

And yes an attempt to conceal that this has been decided on for sometime, likely since Helsinki.

[4139]

4. Maybe they tried to set a 'leak trap' and no one took the bait and lead it earlier