Nancy doubles down on stupid

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday said President Trump revealed that she and other lawmakers would be making a trip to Afghanistan on a commercial flight, a revelation that made it too dangerous to go forward with the trip.

The White House quickly said it was not behind the leak, and accused Pelosi of lying.

"We weren't going to go because we had a report from Afghanistan that the president outing out trip had made feet on the ground much more dangerous because it's a signal to bad actors that we were coming," Pelosi told reporters.

The Speaker described the leak as a shocking break in protocol, saying it was standard for such trips to be kept quiet given the inherent dangers of the trip.

"When the Speaker of the House and about 20 others from Capitol Hill decide to book their own commercial flights to Afghanistan, the world is going to find out," a senior White House official said, according to a White House pool report. "The idea we would leak anything that would put the safety and security of any American at risk is a flat out lie."

Pelosi said Trump's "inexperience" may have led him to leak the information, but she said his staff should have been aware of the dangers. LINK