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Pete Hegseth,Michael Waltz, the Signalgate Scandal and the Blatant Arrogance, Denial and Hypocrisy of the Trump Administration!
Mind you, these same people deride DEI programs! It has been a couple of weeks since the Signal Leak Crisis where several of President Trump’s senior-level national security officials engaged in a text chat session with several high-level Cabinet members. They included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth; Secretary of State Marco Rubio; Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser; Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; CIA Director John Ratcliffe; and Vice President JD Vance. They evidently wanted to hash out plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen and used a messaging app to share the plans. However, they mysteriously added Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, to the group chat and continued to divulge information that was, needless to say, highly sensitive.
Additionally, many of the chat’s messages were set to auto-delete in what appears to violate federal records-keeping laws. Witnessing the lurid details unfold has been an exercise in shock and incredulity. Indeed, it is difficult to decide what the most disturbing aspect of the entire scandal was. Reckless behavior or gross incompetence? The potential danger that such antics could produce? Texting prayer emojis prior to launching weapons? Such a spectacle…
