Trump Jail THREAT BACKFIRES After Israeli Journo Says He Was Leaker

TL;DR

Trump's threat to jail journalists over a pilot leak backfired when Israeli journalist Amit Seagull publicly claimed he was the one who reported it first.

Key Points

• 1.Trump threatened to jail media outlets over a national security leak. He said he'd demand the source from whichever media company published that a second downed pilot was still missing, citing that it alerted Iran and endangered the rescue operation.
• 2.Israeli journalist Amit Seagull publicly claimed credit for the leak. Seagull, known for his direct proximity to Netanyahu's office and cited regularly as a window into Israeli government thinking, posted on his Telegram channel admitting he first published the story.
• 3.Seagull later backtracked, saying The Guardian and two Israeli channels broke it first. After Newsweek, First Post, and the New York Post pointed the finger at him, he denied being the original source, calling the accusations 'undeserved.'
• 4.Iran itself had already reported the pilot couldn't evacuate at 3:09 a.m., hours before any journalist's leak. An Iranian official cited by reporter Jeremy stated the pilot could not evacuate due to the nature of the strike, undermining Trump's entire leak-endangerment argument.
• 5.The Times of Israel briefly reported the leak came from the Israeli Ministry of Defense before deleting that claim. A New York Post reporter flagged the original report; Times of Israel later said they 'erroneously' reported that detail, raising questions about whether they were pressured to retract a real source.