Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning added to OP 10/1/26

it’s also being reported that one of the people in the signal group chat was in Moscow whilst they were chatting. This has to have heads rolling, Hegseth, Waltz and the person in Moscow has to go.

If this happened under Biden, the Republicans and their maga supporters would be kicking up a big stink about this.

He looks and sounds like he's half cut there

The two big issues are that they used it for classified information and that they invited a reporter into it.

Like you, I understand that these guys use something like signal. We've seen politicians in the UK and Ireland using whatsapp. It makes sense to have a messaging system where they can coordinate. But sharing classified information in it is a huge mistake. And inviting a reporter in is just bizarre.

“Congress should hold a hearing, produce the evidence and then call for his resignation.”

But they won’t. This has likely already blown over - and we know MAGA can stand such heat anyway - besides, it was a Ukrainian / Canadian/ Irish hacker that got the journalist added- did you not know that? 😄

In case anyone cares about how Fox are covering this....

Jesse Watters: “You ever try to start a group text, you’re adding people, and you accidentally add the wrong person. All of a sudden your aunt Mary knows all your raunchy plans for the bachelor party. Well that kind of happened today with the Trump administration.”

(For "Aunt Mary" read "journalist")

(For "bachelor party" read "bombing Yemen")

It's sadly how "democracy" works these days. The Brexit referendum and Cambridge Analytica was pretty much the blueprint for that and the Brits fell for it.

Or in this case, Article 5 of the "Rest of NATO without the US". Well, the "Rest of NATO without the US" wouldn't be credible if they didn't come to the aid on a member country. It'll be the end, of it.

Trump's aim is to destroy bigger organization which he deems he can't do business with, at least in his mind. Whether it's NATO or the EU, it doesn't matter to him.

They are in spin control today. Not that they need to be, MAGA is populist and I don't see this making waves with the average American or their base.

If I were Vance, Hegseth or the rest I wouldn't be the slightest bit concerned about this, just attack the journalist/clinton/whatever and move on

It also displays the contempt Vance and Co. have for Europe. If ever proof were needed that Europe needs now to treat anything from the US with suspicion, and be wary of sharing intelligence at this stage

On several points of the transmission of the information by Waltz; is there some-one within the small Trump Admin team with a name similar to the Atlantic journalist to cause such an error? If not, why/how did the journalist's name get on to Waltz list of names he would be sharing classified information to? Has anyone in Waltz Admin group thought yet to ask him why he had an Atlantic journalist name on his phone contacts list in the first place?

The journalist seems to have been very surprised to have gotten all the texts so it's reasonable to assume that he was not regularly in contact with Waltz.

One cannot fail to praise the journalist for not revealing the names of persons at life risk while getting the facts that there was a major leak of classified information by a member of the Trump Admin group without the knowledge of and permission of the person who officially decides what is, and what is not, classified information.

Has Trump succeeding in turning the US into what would be described as a rogue nation, if it were another nation?

Meanwhile, National Security is invoked so as not to release information about those deported to El Salvador, their criminal records (if any), and when the planes took off.

"The judge is seeking information on:

"concerning the exact timing of when the two planes took off from US soil and left US airspace that day, as well as the specific times individuals deported under Trump’s proclamation were transferred out of US custody that day. "

Yet leaked war plans are???????????????????????????

https://us.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/deportation-flights-trump-administration-state-secrets-privilege/index.html

Somehow it’s ‘pot, kettle, black’ that comes to mind on reading this statement from the White House…

I read the original Atlantic article. Apparently he knew waltz in passing and had met him a few times.

Edit to add: He initially thought he was being trolled.