Trump wanted to 'EXECUTE' staffer who leaked the story of him staying in the White House bunker during the Black Lives Matter protests in DC, book claims Former President Donald Trump wanted to 'execute' the staffer who leaked to the press that he had been taken to the White House bunker amid BLM protests 'Whoever did that, they should be charged with treason!' Trump yelled during a meeting. 'They should be executed!' Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender detailed the incident in his new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost Trump tasked his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to hunt down the leaker and remained angry about it for days, Bender wrote The president also tried to downplay the incident saying, 'I was there for a tiny, short little period of time,' saying he was there, 'more for an inspection' By Nikki Schwab, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com Published: 17:25 BST, 13 July 2021 | Updated: 17:33 BST, 13 July 2021 Viewcomments Former President Donald Trump wanted to 'execute' the staffer who leaked to the press that he had been taken down to the White House bunker by Secret Service amid last summer's Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd. Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender wrote in his new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost that Trump's reaction to the bunker story leak 'was the most upset some aides had ever seen the president.' 'Whoever did that, they should be charged with treason!' Trump yelled, according to an excerpt from CNN. 'They should be executed!' Former President Donald Trump yelled that he wanted to 'execute' the staffer who told the news media he had to hide in the White House bunker during last summer's Black Lives Matter protests on the heels of the death of George Floyd On Friday May 29, 2020 protests outside the White House got so frenzied that Secret Service took President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and first son Barron Trump into the underground White House bunker Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender detailed the incident in his new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost In the aftermath of the bunker incident, Trump had gathered top military, law enforcement and West Wing advisers for a meeting. 'Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it,' Bender described. Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows 'repeatedly tried to calm the president as startled aides avoided eye contact,' the book continued. 'I'm on it. We're going to find out who did it,' Meadows told the then-president. Trump, however, remained angry about the leak for days. The president 'repeatedly asked Meadows if he'd found the leaker,' with Meadows 'obsessed' with finding the source, Bender wrote. The author added that 'those who said they'd heard the president issue that warning had interpreted the outburst as a sign of a president in panic.' Floyd, a Minneapolis black man, was killed by police offier Derek Chauvin, who is white, on May 25, 2020, over Memorial Day weekend. By the following Friday night, May 29, Black Lives Matter protesters had gathered around the White House prompting the Secret Service to take Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump to the underground bunker. CNN broke the story, quoting an unnamed White House official and an unnamed law enforcement source. Once the story was out Trump tried to downplay it. 'I was there for a tiny, short little period of time,' Trump told Fox host Brian Kilmeade in a radio interview, adding that it was 'more for an inspection.' He added, 'They said it would be a good time to go down and take a look because maybe sometime you're going to need it.' Read more: Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility