👀 Waltz, SecDef SignalGate | Hegseth copies wife, lawyer on second Signal thread

[Zoo_View]

Other than 1/6, Mike Pence was an absolute tool, who would say or do anything Trump told him to do. JD Vance -- for as much of a spineless jellyfish as he is -- is no worse than the cardboard cutout that Pence was for 99.9% of his tenure.

I agree.

That’s a description of how shitty it is now compared to Election Day 2016 through noon 1/20/21.

The Mike Pence era is better than now.

I remember Mike Pence had to call Dan Quayle to ask what to do. Dan Quayle.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Mulberry Heel]

The douchecanoe made a career out of "firing" people on TV.

What a human skin tag Vance is.

What's amusing about it is that Trump already seems to dislike Vance and clearly seems to hold him in contempt. Even if he doesn't run again in 2028 (22nd Amendment notwithstanding) he isn't going to support Vance as his successor, so all of Vance's brown-nosing and groveling is likely going to get him nowhere in 2028.

 

[nycfan]

In private meeting, Vance and top advisers suggested Trump oust Waltz​

The national security adviser almost got fired. He still might.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/waltz-trump-vance-wiles-private-meeting-00258904

“… In fact, the two allies have heard some administration officials are just waiting for the right time to let him go, eager to be free of the newscycle before making changes.

One of them offered this prediction: “They’ll stick by him for now, but he’ll be gone in a couple of weeks.”

Vance’s office declined to comment. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that “President Trump continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.” …”

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Vance is quite the snake …

 

[dukeman92]

Whiskey leaks strikes again!

 

[Tarheeljoe]

 

[nycfan]

Trump to NBC on Signalgate:

“… “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said, calling the story “fake news” throughout the interview.

“I do,” the president said when asked whether he still has confidence in Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was also in the Signal chat and sent a detailed timeline of the planned strikes before they happened.

“I think it’s just a witch hunt and the fake news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it’s just a witch hunt, and it shouldn’t be talked [about],” Trump added.

“We had a tremendously successful strike. We struck very hard and very lethal. And nobody wants to talk about that. All they want to talk about is nonsense. It’s fake news.” …”

Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if foreign automakers raise prices due to tariffs

In a phone interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump also said he wouldn’t fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[nycfan]

Trump to NBC on Signalgate:

“… “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said, calling the story “fake news” throughout the interview.

“I do,” the president said when asked whether he still has confidence in Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was also in the Signal chat and sent a detailed timeline of the planned strikes before they happened.

“I think it’s just a witch hunt and the fake news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it’s just a witch hunt, and it shouldn’t be talked [about],” Trump added.

“We had a tremendously successful strike. We struck very hard and very lethal. And nobody wants to talk about that. All they want to talk about is nonsense. It’s fake news.” …”

Trump says he ‘couldn’t care less’ if foreign automakers raise prices due to tariffs

In a phone interview with NBC News, President Donald Trump also said he wouldn’t fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat.

www.nbcnews.com

“… “I have no idea what Signal is. I don’t care what Signal is,” Trump said on Saturday. “All I can tell you is it’s just a witch hunt, and it’s the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to talk about. Because it’s been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country.” …”

 

[UNCatTech]

No you do not, you worthless piece of shit. If you did trump would have known about it, hedgeshit wouldn't have claimed it was nothing and the reporter is at fault, and something would have been done about it already.

They are simply racing to polls.

 

[tarheelbillie]

It worked for him in other scandals before and during his confirmation, so Hegseth went back to the well. He is trying to take advantage of the restraint Goldberg and The Atlantic showed by not publishing details they thought were or could be classified info to claim they do t have that info — that is the needle Hegseth is trying to thread.

Wait! Y’all do recall from where trump plucked Hegseth…FOX. Lying is part of his DNA.

 

[JCTarheel82]

 

[nycfan]

 

[genevabuck]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"> BREAKING: Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his Fox News producer wife to a NATO meeting on Ukraine and a classified Pentagon briefing with the UK Defense Secretary, per WSJ.<br><br>No clearance. No job. Massive national security breach.<br><br>He needs to resign — now. <a href="https://t.co/AEmbow8fYF">pic.twitter.com/AEmbow8fYF</a></p>&mdash; Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) <a href="">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

“… Despite repeated messages of support by Trump, Waltz has lost sway with the president and the backing of senior aides within the White House, officials said, just as the administration struggles to broker peace deals and faces the threat of further war in the Middle East.

… Trump’s anger spilled over into many private discussions last week, including multiple calls with allies in which he unloaded expletives and blamed Waltz for the administration’s first big national-security crisis. On Wednesday, Trump spoke to Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and personnel chief Sergio Gor about whether Waltz should be dismissed.

But on Thursday, Trump let Waltz know in a one-on-one meeting that the national security adviser would keep his job. Trump decided to give Waltz a reprieve during that discussion, two administration officials said. He didn’t want the media and Democrats to claim a scalp so early in his second administration, according to people close to Trump, as that would admit wrongdoing. One person said that if news of the Signal chat had first appeared in a conservative media outlet such as Breitbart, Waltz would be gone.

… Even as Trump seriously weighed cutting Waltz loose, aides said he was haunted by his first term firing of Mike Flynn, the retired Army lieutenant general who served as his first national security adviser.

… Waltz’s ideological adversaries are pursuing an internal campaign to remind the president that Waltz wasn’t always aligned with him, by pointing out that Waltz opposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Syria, supported America’s defense of Ukraine, and worked on national security legislation with then-Rep. Liz Cheney, a House Republican from Wyoming who opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Some administration officials also began circulating clips on Friday of Waltz making particularly critical comments of Trump in the past. …”

GIFT LINK —> https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy...9c?st=mF3Ru6&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

GIFT LINK —> https://wapo.st/42dVyTk

Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say​

Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.

“… A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.

Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions. …”

 

[Healing]

The hypocrisy is a feature.

 

[superrific]

They're not giving him enough credit. Was he actually sending emails with gmail? Or was he writing a draft, saving it, and then someone comes in later to read it? That's super-secure. Foolproof, actually.