Trump phone calls leak to the press

WASHINGTON—Two of President Donald Trump’s phone conversations with world leaders leaked Thursday morning, and The Washington Post published the transcripts online. One call was between Trump and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico and the other with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in January. Trump spoke coarsely to Peña Nieto about drugs pouring into the United States from the Mexican border. While campaigning for president, Trump promised voters he would build a border wall and Mexico would pay for it. Peña Nieto has repeatedly said he will not comply. Trump asked Peña Nieto to stop telling the press he wouldn’t pay for the wall because it’s bad politics for both of them. “On the wall, you and I both have [a] political problem,” Trump said, according to the transcripts. “[T]he fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall. I have to. I have been talking about it for a two-year period.” The Post assembled the transcripts from notes of White House aides who were listening to the calls—one of many leaked pieces of information during Trump’s short tenure in office. During a press conference Thursday, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he told Trump and new White House chief of staff John Kelly to fire every single staff member they even suspect of leaking information to the press.