When you go with scrubs Donald?
What do you expect?….
And doing media swings doesn’t seem to working for him….
President Donald Trump didn’t know what Signal was.
Shortly before facing reporters yesterday afternoon, Trump was told by aides about a story publishing in The Atlantic disclosing that the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, had been accidentally added to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, two White House officials told me on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. Goldberg was still in the chat when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared plans for a military strike against the Houthis in Yemen.
Trump—who is famously reluctant to use any electronic messaging, and who started sending the occasional text message only during his last campaign—had not heard of the encrypted app and opted against weighing in when he spoke with the press, the officials said. Instead, Trump insisted he knew little about the matter while taking a swipe at Goldberg and this publication.
But since then, the two officials and an outside adviser told me, the president has grown frustrated at the incident’s sloppiness and the negative headlines it has spawned—including from a contentious congressional hearing today—even as he and his allies have focused on attacking the media rather than showing outward concern for the apparent flagrant national-security breach….
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Waltz…..
President Donald Trump on Tuesday attempted to explain why his national security adviser had the contact information of a reporter the White House loathes, blaming a stunning leak on an unnamed junior staffer without providing evidence.
“Somebody that … worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level, had, I guess, [Jeffrey] Goldberg’s number, who called through the app, and somehow this guy ended up on the [chat],” the president told Newsmax’s Greg Kelly in an interview that aired Tuesday night and was recorded earlier in the day….
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It was the latest example of Trump jumping to Waltz’s defense as others in the White House wondered if the embattled national security adviser would soon be pushed to resign. But Trump brushed aside concerns and reiterated “I feel very comfortable actually.”
Earlier Tuesday, Waltz took “full responsibility” for the oversight but denied knowing Goldberg, whom Trump has called a “sleazebag” whose reporting is “bad for the country.”
“I can tell you 100 percent I don’t know this guy,” Waltz told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham. When she pressed him about how he got into the chat, he replied: “Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else’s number?”….
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