Why Trump voters love him more than ever. edit: And how the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic got on a Signal chat list during the planning for last weekend's attack on the Houthis
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Military pilots are outraged about The Signal fiasco. NYT report.
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Surprising.
The knives are out for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Politico reports that White House and Pentagon insiders are increasingly questioning Hegseth’s judgment and see him as the culprit in the disastrous news that Trump’s top advisors discussed war plans in an insecure chat, a scandal that continues to shake the administration. This comes as a poll finds that 74 percent of Americans see the leak as a serious problem, including 60 percent of Republicans. And here’s another striking number: Only 42 percent of Republicans say the media is making too big a deal about the scandal, suggesting that MAGA’s effort to blame the fake news for this fiasco is going belly up even with GOP voters.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193361/transcript-trump-text-fiasco-worsens-knives-come-hegseth
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Goldberg is a hoot.
Trump has so far declined to fire any of those involved, with the president dismissing it as a “glitch” and instead attacking Goldberg. Waltz, meanwhile, said that Goldberg’s number was somehow “sucked in” to his phone and added to the Signal group chat.
Goldberg has rejected this explanation. “I don’t know what he’s talking about there,” the journalist told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday. Referring to a science fiction movie about humans unknowingly living in a simulated reality, Goldberg said: “This isn’t ‘The Matrix’. Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones.
“You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/pete-hegseth-republican-voters
