Trump threatens jail for reporter who revealed Iran airman rescue

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would demand that the journalist who first reported that an airman in Iran had been rescued reveal how they got that information, and threatened to jail them if they refused. Trump’s remarks at a White House press conference represented a significant escalation of the administration’s attacks on the press. The president has privately complained to aides in recent weeks that media coverage of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has been too negative, and Trump and his allies have publicly criticized some news organizations’ coverage. After a U.S. fighter jet was shot down over Iran on Friday, several media outlets reported that one of the two airmen onboard had been successfully recovered by U.S. rescue forces. Trump said the disclosure had threatened the security of the ongoing operation to rescue the second airman, though that airman was eventually successfully recovered. “We didn’t talk about the first one for an hour. Then somebody leaked something, which, we will hopefully find that leaker. We’re looking very hard to find that le

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