Media outlets continue to publish reports challenging President Donald Trump’s approval of military strikes against drug smuggling boats and their operators, while phrasing negative language from unnamed sources and “officials.”
The Washington Post on Saturday began a report saying “President Donald Trump and his top White House aides pushed for lethal strikes on Western Hemisphere drug traffickers … and in the past 10 months have repeatedly steamrolled or sidestepped government lawyers who questioned whether the provocative policy was legal, according to multiple current and former officials familiar with the debates.”
Rarely are the so-called “officials” named or directly quoted.
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