So Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server led to calls for her to be imprisoned, but Pete Hegseth and friends can have a Signal group chat about bombing a terrorist group and it’s no big deal? Apparently so, and while it’s infuriating, it’s not overly surprising.
Repeating “but her emails” every time a Donald Trump administration does something egregious has become a cliché for a reason. However, in the wake of the genuinely shocking revelation that Hegseth and other senior members of Trump’s national security team discussed a US bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen on a Signal group chat—one they apparently accidentally included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on—it bears repeating, again.
Clinton herself can’t believe it either.
“The hypocrisy is staggering, but worse, the arrogance and incompetence puts the lives of our military men and women in danger,” she tells Glamour exclusively, in her first public comments on the matter since a post on X on Monday.
If you have spent the last few days in a hyperbaric chamber without internet or television access (jealous) and have somehow missed this story, a brief refresher. On Monday, Goldberg, who is a deeply respected, award-winning editor and longtime national security reporter, published an article with this jaw-dropping headline: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”
As Goldberg explains, a few weeks ago he received a connection request on Signal, an encrypted messaging app popular with journalists, from a user named Michael Waltz. Goldberg assumed that this Waltz was the same one currently serving as Trump’s national security advisor, but didn’t think the request actually came from him directly.
Then Waltz added Goldberg to a chat called “Houthi PC small group,” populated with users purporting to be top Trump officials like Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. No one questioned why Goldberg, identified as “JG” in the chat, was in there or who he was, and the group soon began discussing plans for an imminent attack on the Houthis, an Iranian-backed militia group, in Yemen.
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