Miranda Devine: Trump-derangement syndrome drives deep state leakers, CNN to treasonous lengths to deny prez a victory

How deranged are the Trump-deranged? Are the deep state leakers and their Democrat media mouthpieces so blinded by their hatred for the president that they will go to treasonous lengths just to deny him a victory.Or are they simply hellbent on provoking a full-scale war with Iran? CNN’s exclusive report of a leaked top secret US intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency Tuesday suggested that the weekend B-2 bunker buster sortie in Iran was a flop.

This conveniently contradicted Trump’s claim that it was a “spectacular military success” that had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities and overshadowed the startlingly good news that the president had somehow pulled off a cease-fire between Iran and Israel, which was still holding more than 40 hours later, when we went to press. If the aim of CNN and its toxic leakers was to enrage Trump, it worked, with the president venting ever since on social media, on Air Force One to the traveling press corps and in a press conference in The Hague where he called CNN “fake news.” He has a point. Among the intelligence community, regard for DIA analysis is so low that the nickname for the agency is “Do It Again.” The CNN exclusive was written by none other than Natasha Bertrand, the same CIA stenographer who scooped the dishonest Dirty 51 letter by 51 former intelligence officials back in October 2020 falsely claiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.More on her later. Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington.

Subscribe here!The FBI is hot on the trail of the leaker or leakers of the DIA report, with US special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff accusing CNN’s anonymous deep state sources of “treason.” But CNN’s dishonest spin of the intelligence assessment was as egregious. The DIA came out later to say it was a ...