Repeating “however her emails” each time a Donald Trump administration does one thing egregious has grow to be a cliche for a motive. However, within the wake of the genuinely surprising revelation that Hegseth and different senior members of Trump’s nationwide safety workforce mentioned a US bombing marketing campaign in opposition to Houthi rebels in Yemen on a Signal group chat—one they apparently by accident included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on—it bears repeating, once more.
Clinton herself can’t imagine it both.
“The hypocrisy is staggering, however worse, the vanity and incompetence places the lives of our navy women and men at risk,” she tells Glamour solely, in her first public feedback on the matter since a submit on X on Monday.
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If you may have spent the previous few days in a hyperbaric chamber with out web or tv entry (jealous) and have by some means missed this story, a short refresher. On Monday, Goldberg, who’s a deeply revered, award-winning editor and longtime nationwide safety reporter, printed an article with the jaw-dropping headline: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”
As Goldberg explains, a number of weeks in the past he acquired a connection request on Signal, an encrypted messaging app in style with journalists, from a person named Michael Waltz. Goldberg assumed that this Waltz was the identical one at present serving as Trump’s nationwide safety advisor, however didn’t assume the request truly got here from him straight.
Then, Waltz added Goldberg to a chat known as “Houthi PC small group,” populated with customers purporting to be high Trump officers like Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. No one questioned why Goldberg, recognized as “JG” within the chat, was in there or who he was, and the group quickly started discussing plans for an imminent assault on the Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia group, in Yemen.
