In his explosive press conference on Wednesday – the first he's held since winning the presidency – Donald Trump revealed that he had personally conducted a sting operation that caught intelligence officials illegally leaking information about his classified briefings to the press. 

Trump explained that after growing suspicious that intelligence officials were behind leaks to the media, he decided to test his theory. 

"I think it's pretty sad when intelligence reports get leaked out to the press," he said. "First of all, it’s illegal. These are classified and certified meetings and reports... I’ll tell you what does happen. I have many meetings with intelligence. And every time I meet, people are reading about it. Somebody’s leaking them out. I said, 'Maybe it’s my office. Maybe my office.' Because I’ve got a lot of people … Maybe it’s them?"

He then revealed the details of his mini-sting operation.

"What I did, is I said I won't tell anyone. I'm going to have a meeting, and I won't tell anybody about my meeting with intelligence," he explained. "Nobody knew – not even Rhona, my executive assistant for years. She didn’t know – I didn’t tell her. Nobody knew... The meeting was held. They left, and immediately the word got out that I had a meeting."

"So, I don’t want that," he said. "It’s very unfair to the country. It’s very unfair to our country what’s happening."