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Trump administration texts reporter WAR PLANS. Great administration. FIRE THEM ALL!” ... Remember when Trump & his Repubs wanted Hillary Clinton imprisoned over her emails?”
Another user wrote ... A user wrote As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return."
Then an account believed to belong to Stephen Miller said If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again."
Vance then appeared to accept the Pentagon chiefs argument as he wrote Team, you should have a statement of conclusions with tasking per the Presidents [sic] guidance this morning in your high side inboxes."
Goldberg then revealed a text from Waltz at 8:05am a day later which read I think we are making a mistake."
JD Vance is then said to have messaged the group saying Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot.”
Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz, who reportedly added Goldberg to the chat, is now facing the sack - with one insider telling Politico I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”
Trump’s defence secretary Pete Hegseth replied No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there. And I received no subsequent questions about why I left—or, more to the point, who I was,
Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that,
Hegseth told reporters when asked why those details were inadvertently shared with Goldberg, after landing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii Is there any other way to describe it? I can use a different word but you get the drift,
Cornyn told CNN and other reporters The Vice President’s first priority is always making sure that the President’s advisers are adequately briefing him on the substance of their internal deliberations. Vice President Vance unequivocally supports this administration’s foreign policy. The President and the Vice President have had subsequent conversations about this matter and are in complete agreement.”
In a statement to CNN, William Martin, communications director to the vice president, said I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. It’s, 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.”
He expressed surprise when asked about the story, telling reporters Monday afternoon What you did see, though, I think, was top level officials doing their job, doing it well, and executing on a plan with precision.”
But Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson downplayed the significance of the incident How the name of a journalist was added to that list – this is just a serious blunder,
Somebody needs to get fired,
former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told CNN Everyone is on Signal, all day and night,
one official told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations in the West Wing You couldn’t have picked a worse person than Goldberg to add to the chat,
one person close to Trump said Apparently an inadvertent phone number made it onto that thread. They’re going to track that down and make sure that doesn’t happen again,
If anyone else did it, no question it would be investigated,
a former Justice official said They broke every procedure known to man about protecting operational material before a military strike,
said a former senior intelligence official
