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Republican lawmaker confronted over Signal chat leak, responds sharply 'Do you trust your mother every night to fix your Hot Pockets and make sure your Game Boy is turned on?' (Burchett - video at source)
Fox News ^ | Rachel Wolf

Posted on 03/29/2025 9:04:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., had a quick response when someone attempted a "gotcha" question.

In a viral video, a young man is seen running up to the congressman with a phone, presumably filming, before asking about the Signal chat leak that has rocked Washington, D.C., for the last week. The unidentified man asked the congressman whether he could "trust Trump’s national security team to keep our war plans top secret?"

Rather than ignore the man or try to answer his question, the congressman hit him with a snappy response.

"Do you trust your mother every night to fix your Hot Pockets and make sure your Game Boy is turned on?" he fired back.

Burchett’s retort seemed to shock the man, who stopped walking as the insult was hurled, while the congressman continued on.

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1 posted on 03/29/2025 9:04:03 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Good one.


2 posted on 03/29/2025 9:06:16 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: RoosterRedux; thinden; bitt

This exchange seems VERY familiar.
Like it was from a few years back.
Just got that feeling.


3 posted on 03/29/2025 9:15:48 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
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To: RoosterRedux

LOL! Little Dylan Snuffy got his toes trampled on. Excellent.


4 posted on 03/29/2025 9:17:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weaponized, bureaucratic "judges" like Boasberg have got to go. They aren't elected to anything.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I wish the uninformed morons would stop blaming the Signal App for this leak.

It’s like blaming the gun for someone’s murder.


5 posted on 03/29/2025 9:20:51 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Childish nonsense.


6 posted on 03/29/2025 9:23:25 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: RoosterRedux

The left hates the USA. Why would they worry about national security. It is nothing except an attempt at a gotcha question.


7 posted on 03/29/2025 9:24:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel
This exchange seems VERY familiar.
Like it was from a few years back.
Just got that feeling.

Maybe something involving a certain neo-con Vice President and an aging Vermont Senator.

8 posted on 03/29/2025 9:26:23 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I don’t think anyone in the press understands why this story has any legs. Its not because of security with Russians or Iran. It’s because we want leaker RINOs gone. The press is acting like the White House leaked to Iran. They leaked to a guy with a TS clearance who is a CIA shill in the left winged media.

So did someone in the White House do it on purpose. If so, get the leaker out. If it was a mistake than ok. Don’t do it again. But this is not a national security issue. The left had the state department run from Hillary’s closet. Clearly they don’t really care about national security.


9 posted on 03/29/2025 9:35:53 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Signal App gotcha story was supposed to be what began the decline of President Trump’s second term... only problem is, the only people worked up over this story are already antiTrumpers. Nobody else in America cares... and I say GOOD! Let them fixate on this dead end story while President Trump continues to correct the worngs of the past several decades.


10 posted on 03/29/2025 9:38:54 AM PDT by bayliving (I am a sufferer of DITS - Democrat Induced Touretts Syndrome )
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

“Like it was from a few years back.”

It’s probably the dated Game Boy reference. They haven’t made a Game Boy in like 20 years.


11 posted on 03/29/2025 9:59:25 AM PDT by Kleon
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To: bayliving

It would help if Trump’s Team would stop being suckered into talking about Signalgate at every turn and instead talk about the highly successful mission that accomplished all objectives with zero loss of American life.

Flip the narrative, like Trump did with “fake news” and “Russia collusion”.


12 posted on 03/29/2025 10:00:17 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

But they do that too


13 posted on 03/29/2025 10:06:23 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: RoosterRedux

Author writes this rocked Washington.

Real world - Ho Hum


14 posted on 03/29/2025 10:18:23 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: RoosterRedux

“rocked Washington, D.C”

Rock a bye baby on the tree top. zzzzzzz. Next week, another story to rock DC as they are easily rocked it seems.


15 posted on 03/29/2025 10:42:16 AM PDT by hotsteppa
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

16 posted on 03/29/2025 9:25:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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