Trump has reduced the leakage of collective texts with 18 senior officials and correspondents as “serious” while the Democrats explode “completely professional”.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump reduced the text messages of sensitive plans for a military strike against the Yemeni Houthis this month to a group chat that included a journalist, saying it was “the only two months’ defect” of his administration.

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