I always kind of thought that Trump should have just released the Democrat memo as is.
Then when everyone starts screaming about all the classified into in it, just point to the Dems on the committee and say,
“These were the people in charge of our intelligence data. I would think that they knew what was classified and what could be released to the public. Else why would they put it in a memo and then demand for it to be released to the public? Why would they threaten our country’s security like that?”
What does the Just-Us Department and FIB say?
They were quite vocal against making the GOP authored memos public.
No, I think Trump did it right. They simply would say, “It was all still secret until you released it unredacted. YOU spilled the beans!”
The way Trump handled it, any genuine secrets are still genuine secrets; the Donkey’s “yeah, but…” memo stays with the committee; the process for releasing it starts over; and the Donkeys have to expend more effort on getting it out. And if they leak it, Trump gets them on that and shows everyone how Donkeys treat important secrets like political footballs.