Trump said that Waltz “has learned a lesson and is a good man.” President Donald Trump said he is confident in his national security adviser, Mike Waltz — a day after a report detailed how he inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal group chat discussing Yemen war plans. Trump told NBC News on Tuesday that Waltz “has learned a lesson and is a good man.” The president brushed off concerns about the group chat on the messaging app, which reportedly included operational details about war plans in Yemen — and mistakenly included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, according to a report from Goldberg published Monday. Trump told NBC News that Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” and called the whole ordeal “the only glitch” his administration has faced since Inauguration Day. Goldberg said he received a Signal invitation from Waltz, who was a member of the group chat. Goldberg said the group chat also appeared to include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others. White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes told ABC News on Monday that the group chat “appears to be authentic.”
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siehe auch: Trump Admin’s Text Thread Security Fails Are Literally Weaponizing Incompetence . Clearly, Trump’s warmongering Cabinet members are taking the phrase “it all goes down in the group chat” too far. Where’s a red flag emoji when you need one? The Daily Beast doesn’t normally publish a lot of cursewords in my columns, but I’m hoping they consider an exemption this week. Consider a quote from America’s Boy Scout Dad, Pete Buttigieg, a fella not prone to hair-on-fire theatrics, for example. Buttigieg’s hot take is in response to yet-another Trump scandal, this one involving National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally inviting Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg into an unsecured group chat discussing war plans for recent airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Buttigieg, a former intelligence officer, called the scandal “an astonishing security failure…the highest level of f-ckup imaginable.” (…) The first Burger King presidency was bolstered by “the best people” getting sacked or turning on their boss because of his incompetence and lack of intellectual rigor—“a f-cking moron,” according to his first Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson. Rather than taking it as insult, Trump decided to use it as a hiring directive for his second term. And so this is where we are: an administration headed by a f-cking moron, staffed by f-cking morons, doing f-cking moronic things on the daily without cause of care. These are stupid people. Stupid people do stupid things. At this level, stupid things get people killed. Again, I really hope the Daily Beast relaxes their profanity rules because there’s only one possible word to end this piece: F-CK!
