“You have to have a freedom to speak in a private meeting to speak candidly. We’ve all said things in private, esp. in smaller groups that we work with, that we’d never say publicly…I’m really disappointed that someone would undermine POTUS by leaking it.”

I do make a distinction between private and public utterances. Does not mean that I do not think that he is an asshole, but I knew that he was a dick before I heard about his utterance.