Donald Trump wants to know who leaked details about the missing U.S. airman who was rescued from the mountains of Iran in a high-stakes mission on Sunday.

The U.S. carried out a daring operation to extract two airmen who ejected from the F-15E fighter jet that was shot down by Iranian forces on Friday. The military plucked the pilot out of Iranian territory on Friday, and later pulled out the second service member who was hiding in the mountains.

But during a press conference on Monday, Trump accused a media organization of jeopardizing the mission for reporting that a second airman was missing on Friday. He did not name the media organization, but threatened to jail the journalist who first reported that a second airman was missing.

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    5 hours ago

    Weird how none of these pilots have actually been named, nor have their families said anything

    I don’t think the USA rescued anyone. I think this was a failed attempt to transport uranium out of Iran.

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      2 hours ago

      The appearance of AI slop pilots doesn’t instill confidence, plus Trump lies about everything.

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    21 hours ago

    The pedophile that stole top secret government documents and has been on record exposing military intelligence said that? Crazy. Go get em, tiger.

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    Apparently trump has difficulty figuring out that if a fighter has a crew of 2 and one is rescued there must be one left over somewhere…

    The whole thing is not spilled top secret info and the Iranians would have been searching as soon as they figured out it was a 2 seated F15 that was shot down.
    It kind of reads like “we’re missing a pilot but unless there is hubbub about it we plan on doing nothing” and now their hand got forced.

    Remember how low trump thinks of wounded soldiers…

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      Do we know for a fact the exact aircraft that were shot down? I get what you are saying. I’d just love a source that has a count on them and all the info. Seems like a chaos of misinformation on all of this.

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      Who in US government keeps leaking classified information? Dementia-Don himself.

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    17 hours ago

    It’s on brand for Trump to gloat and parade a successful rescue but that’s not what’s happening so it’s highly suspect.

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    Having only read Trump’s comments on this, he says Iran didn’t know there was a 2nd missing person until the story was leaked. If true, the journalist and reporter put the pilots life in danger.

    Is there some context we’re missing?

    Now, arresting the journalists is dumb, but definitely seems like a dick move to report this.