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Swede

(35,795 posts)
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 10:06 AM Friday

All the laws flouted during SignalGate

Every day they do something awful. Multiple times per day. This Signalgate is just one of them, so imagine how many laws they break daily.

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It’s the type of bombshell that would’ve sent heads rolling in any previous presidency.

On Monday, we learned that over a dozen high-level Trump officials had a breezy conversation over Signal about plans to bomb Yemen — and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz somehow accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in the group chat. Then, the administration managed to basically goad Goldberg into releasing the entire text chain. This did not make things better, given how the texts undercut Trumpworld’s spin by showing that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did in fact share details ahead of the attack that could’ve endangered US service members.

As the week draws to a close, the administration is still throwing excuses against the wall, hoping one of them might stick enough to distract people from the fact that “SignalGate” was highly illegal in multiple respects. Hegseth claims the texts weren’t really war plans. Waltz wants you to believe that somehow Goldberg’s number was “sucked in” to his contacts.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/signalgate-laws-violated-waltz-hegseth

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