Posted on 03/24/2025 3:03:49 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
President Donald Trump said he knew nothing of members of his administration discussing sensitive war plans in a group text that errantly included Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic when asked about the bombshell report on Monday.
Goldberg, the outlet’s editor-in-chief, reported Monday he was looped into a Signal group earlier this month wherein multiple top Trump administration officials discussed bombing Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Those people apparently included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Vice President JD Vance. Goldberg said he was added to the group after an invitation from Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Signal, an encrypted messaging cell phone app.
The report sent shockwaves across Washington. When Trump was asked about it Monday afternoon by a pool reporter, he said he knew nothing of the report:
REPORTER: Mr. President, your reaction to the story, The Atlantic, that said that some of your top cabinet officials and aides have been discussing very sensitive material through Signal and included an Atlantic reporter for that. What is your response to that and are you going to take it –
TRUMP: I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?
REPORTER: They were using Signal to coordinate on sensitive materials, and –
TRUMP: Having to do with what? Having to do with what? What were they talking about?
REPORTER: The Houthis.
TRUMP: With the Houthis. You mean the attack on the Houthis? Well, it couldn’t have been very effective because the attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time?
Golberg reported Monday that in the conversation, Trump’s inner circle discussed bombing Yemen – something Vance had reservations about, but Hegseth was in favor of.
He added Hegseth posted sensitive and classified information that The Atlantic opted against sharing.
BINGO!
Signal is mickey mouse.
Goldberg was signed on as “JG.” Obviously, no one bothered to take roll call as to who the various participants were.
Who do you guess leaked the connection to him? Whether or not it was Waltz, I believe he’s the one ultimately responsible for protecting security.
Why shoot it down? It opens up the conversations regarding Hilary’s unsecure server, Obama’s open mike dialogue regarding help for Putin, etc. We could go on and on.
This is how 3D chess is played, babee!!
These leaks and security breaches are being done by Pedo Joe’s embedded “resist” and “obstruct” probationary “work at home” nazis that Trump is trying to fire.
Sorry but it’s a technique Taylor Swift uses to see which person or employee in her circle is talking to a tabloid 😁
No one should be talking about sensitive information via an app. That’s pure stupidity.
It may well be a mistake. I suppose these "journalists' call government officials day and night looking for information - and they do deserve some of it, so it's easy to understand one being on the speed dial, so to speak.
But this inclusion is unforgivable, in either case. Measure twice; cut once.
That guy is quality, he was an early follow. More than reasonable conjecture on this.
Jeffrey Goldberg isn’t known for accuracy...
...The piece, written by the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, claims Trump fumed about a $60,000 bill he received from Guillen’s family for her funeral during a December 2020 Oval Office meeting — allegedly telling aides, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f–king Mexican.”
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Mayra Guillen, Vanessa’s sister, slammed the Atlantic report as “hurtful & disrespectful,” and indicated that the former president treated her family with “respect” in the aftermath of her sister’s brutal killing.
“President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa,” she added. “In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”
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So, what was the specifics in the super duper deep secret plan that no one in a million years would be able to think up independently?
What was the “war plan”
Careless to say the least.
Check out the X post by cynicalpublius linked upthread by dr. Zzyzx
One man’s theory: https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1904250313797779538
Agree there. Vance’s comments sound too much like a stump speech and meant for public consumption. This “leak” is all just a little too neatly wrapped up for it to be genuine.
Honestly I think they felt it was too “hard.” I’m not attributing to malice what is really just stupidity. And this is monumentally stupid.
I was right it seems there is much more to this story...
What’s new on that? Sorry, I’ve been busy and haven’t seen anything new.
Thanks.
Hard to separate fact from fiction. Maybe we’ll know more by the end of the day.
Whatever, I noted on another thread that Walz’s use of emoji’s in the Signal chat was childish; a display of immaturity given the seriousness of the matter being discussed. He was also evidently careless which is very concerning.
We need to get to the bottom of this little mess.
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