White House counselor Kellyanne Conway believes the Trump administration has fewer leaks, despite the publication last week of behind-the-scenes details in excerpts from Bob Woodward’s book and an anonymous opinion piece by a senior Trump administration official in the New York Times.
“There are some leakers who are long gone, they are just leaking now to authors of books, so they’re long gone,” Conway said Sunday during an interview with NBC News. “Actually, that’s gotten much better. We’ve seen that.”
Conway added that Trump deserved a White House that did not leak nor have unnamed political appointees write op-eds about it. But she advised the president to remain cautious about what he says to large groups.
“I think the president should have real concerns about having large meetings where sometimes there are people included or who are substituting for other people that maybe he doesn’t know well,” she said. “I think that President Trump deals best in smaller groups because he loves to hear dissenting opinions, disagreements among his staff.”
In the op-ed, the mystery author describes how some officials are working “diligently” to frustrate parts of Trump’s agenda and “his worst inclinations” because they believe their first duty is to the country rather than the administration.
Its publication last Wednesday followed the Washington Post circulating extracts from Woodward’s forthcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” which presents a presidency on the brink of a “nervous breakdown.”
