President Donald Trump and the Justice Department struck a defiant tone Friday after prosecutors withdrew subpoenas targeting New York Times reporters in a criminal leak investigation involving Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One plane.

“We’re not after journalists,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We’re after leakers. We’re after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous in many cases.”

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