So … I guess we now know for sure that Israel was indeed the source, as multiple news outlets have reported. Thanks, Mr. President!

To be clear: No one has reported that Trump did name Israel when speaking with Russia's foreign minister and ambassador to the United States. The Washington Post simply reported last week that Trump disclosed information that had been provided by an ally, and other outlets later identified the ally as Israel, citing unnamed sources.

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Trump on Monday denied an accusation that has not been leveled against him. In the process, he seemed to confirm the reports that Israel was the source — reports that reflected poorly on him, given the appearance that unauthorized intelligence-sharing could strain relations with an important partner.

This was not a fluke. Trump has a bad habit of tacitly confirming bad news, seemingly by accident, at times.

Immediately after The Post published its original report on Trump's Oval Office encounter with the Russians, national security adviser H.R. McMaster read to reporters a carefully worded statement in which he said that “the story that came out tonight, as reported, is false.” The next morning, however, Trump tweeted that he had “the absolute right” to share information with Russian officials.

He was right. As Post reporters Greg Miller and Greg Jaffe explained in their article, “Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.” But by defending his “absolute right,” Trump seemed to inadvertently acknowledge that he had, in fact, done exactly what The Post said he did.

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Also this month, Trump explicitly confirmed one suspicion about his firing of then-FBI Director James B. Comey and strongly indicated that another suspicion was also true.

Although White House spokesmen answered no when reporters asked whether the president had decided to terminate Comey before receiving a memo from Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, Trump answered yes in an interview with NBC News.

“I was going to fire Comey,” he told anchor Lester Holt. “Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation.”

Trump wasn't quite so clear on the question of whether he removed Comey to disrupt an investigation of campaign ties to Russia, but he did admit in the same interview that the probe was on his mind when he made the call to fire.

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“In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, ‘You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story; it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won,’” Trump said.

When The Post cited unnamed U.S. officials in a report in February that Trump had a terse phone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the president essentially verified the story at the National Prayer Breakfast the next day.

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“Believe me, when you hear about the tough phone calls I'm having, don't worry about it,” he said. “Just don't worry about it. They're tough. We have to be tough. It's time we're going to be a little tough, folks. We're taken advantage of by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen anymore.”

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During the presidential campaign, after the New York Times obtained tax documents from 1995 that indicated Trump could have avoided paying federal income taxes for a long time — as many as 18 years — he appeared to slip an admission into what was meant as a retort to Hillary Clinton during a September debate.

CLINTON: Maybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. TRUMP: That makes me smart.

It turns out that Trump avoided federal income taxes for no more than 10 years because by 2005 he was paying Uncle Sam again. We know this because DC Report in March obtained the first two pages of Trump's federal return from that year. And we know the pages are legit because, well, the White House admitted as much when it issued the following statement in response:

Mr. Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that.