JD Vance Planted an Anonymous Story. Then He Backed Trump's Media Ban.
The White House attacked anonymous national security reporting while one of the stories at the center of the controversy came directly from the vice president under anonymity rules imposed by the administration itself.
This is a massive development in Donald Trump's escalating fight with the press.
Vice President JD Vance was the anonymous senior administration official behind information given to reporters during a June White House briefing about negotiations with Iran.
And that's important because the Trump administration would later point to anonymous national security reporting while defending its decision to ban Politico, CNN and MS NOW from the White House.
Let's be extremely clear about what happened.