Summary

Trump defended National Security Adviser Mike Waltz after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing Yemen military plans.

Trump dismissed the incident as a minor mistake, saying Waltz had “learned a lesson.”

Democrats criticized the security breach, demanding an investigation into the use of unapproved messaging apps for classified information.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House officials denied sharing classified material, calling the chat a “policy coordination” effort.

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    10 hours ago

    You cannot expect a man who took classified documents and stored them in a golf resort bathroom to take any aspect of national security seriously.

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      8 hours ago

      No, he is a spy-genius: who would think to search for secret data in a golf resort bathroom? Deep strategic planning! Round belly. Agent Trump. Donald Trump. Codename 885.

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    Or we could hire professionals with experience that don’t have to “learn lessons” with national security intel.

    Trump hired amateurs and fired staff that had experience. This is a federal government run like a school project.

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      School projects are designed to result in the participants learning something in the end.

      This clown is literally incapable of learning.

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    Nevermind including a reporter in the group chat. Can we talk about why these people are using a commercial service to hold classified discussions in the first place? Like, isn’t bombing another country SCIF-type stuff? Isn’t that stuff subject to the Federal Records Act?