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trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - SteveG - 03-25-2025
Defense drunk replies in trump style...lie repeatedly and attack the source in the crudest terms
Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5211867-hegseth-says-nobody-was-texting-war-plans-after-group-chat-breach/
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday that “nobody was texting war plans” following news breaking that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, gained access to a Signal group chat featuring Trump administration officials talking about plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth said outside a plane in Hawaii after being asked about Goldberg’s access to the chat.
Hegseth also called Goldberg “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”
Goldberg gained access to a group chat featuring Trump administration figures such as Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz in which they talked about plans for an attack against Houthi rebels. The Atlantic journalist detailed his experience as a part of the chat in a Monday report that rattled Washington.
Goldberg said he had doubts originally that the Signal group was real because he did not think “the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans.”
The chat’s existence was confirmed by a spokesperson for the National Security Council, Brian Hughes.
“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Hughes said previously.
“The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
(HA HA HA HA)
Multiple Democrats went after Hegseth following the reveal of Goldberg’s breach into the chat.
“There is no world in which this information should have been shared in non-secure channels,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a Marine veteran, said online. “Hegseth is in so far over his head that he is a danger to this country and our men and women in uniform.”
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - jonny - 03-25-2025
And Mike Johnson just all but confirmed it.
This gets better and better!
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - Ombligo - 03-25-2025
the best summary I've seen
A person close to the White House was blunt: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot.”
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - Wags - 03-25-2025
‘Unbelievable’: Jeffrey Goldberg speaks out after Trump officials accidentally texted him war plans
https://youtu.be/CxitqbPwBJY?si=KEVdx-tm1IzNQmpO
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - jonny - 03-25-2025
I gotta say, the fact that Mike waltz is in Greenland right now trying to throw around his soft power to convince them to put their security into our hands is just delicious!
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - PeterB - 03-25-2025
And here's what the Lincoln Project has to say about all this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOLnztqMXkI
(My favorite comment in that link: "Hegseth is a DUI hire."
miley-laughing001:
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - pdq - 03-25-2025
Bluesky post:
Well this aged like unpasteurized milk
3 days ago:
“Under the previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore.”
-Pete Hegseth
miley-laughing001:
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - pdq - 03-25-2025
Not only incompetent, not only incredibly reckless - waaay beyond anything they badgered Clinton over for months if not years - but also (shocker!) illegal, in two ways:
First, government communications like these are supposed to be on official channels, and be retained for government archives.
Secondly, extremely sensitive military communications done over insecure channels like this probably violate the Espionage Act.
But IOK, IYA incompetent, hard-drinkin’, sex-assaultin’, Faux-News-talking-head-hire R.
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - TheCaber - 03-25-2025
Has anybody asked him about texting war plans during the breach? Just asking. For a friend.
Re: trump-level lies: 'Hegseth says ‘nobody was texting war plans’ after group chat breach' - Lux Interior - 03-25-2025
pdq wrote:
Not only incompetent, not only incredibly reckless - waaay beyond anything they badgered Clinton over for months if not years
The damage to our national security from the leak of a top-secret risotto recipe is incalculable.