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The leaks coming out of the Trump White House cast the president as a clueless child

January 26, 2017 at 11:01 a.m. EST
President Trump sat down for his first interview at the White House with ABC News on Jan. 25. Here's what happened. (Video: Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

All White Houses leak. Sometimes the leaks are big, sometimes small. But there are always people willing to talk to reporters about the “real” story or about why the chief executive made a mistake in regard to some decision he made.

That said, I've never seen so much leaking so quickly — and with such disdain for the president — as I have in the first six days of Donald Trump's presidency.