When news broke that several high-ranking members of the Trump Administration, including the vice president and several cabinet secretaries, had been discussing plans to attack Yemen on a Signal chat — one to which they had accidentally invited journalist Jeffrey Goldberg — a lot of people’s minds went to the same place: “But her emails…”
Hillary Clinton thought of it as well:
👀 You have got to be kidding me.https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG pic.twitter.com/bnNG4dGSpI
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2025
Yes, Donald Trump first came into office after a 2016 election in which his Democratic opponent’s use of a private email service was treated, by his side, as a disqualifying failure. At the same time, Trump and his associates have long demonstrated what can be considered a cavalier attitude when it comes to information security, whether it was Trump’s federal indictment for taking documents to Florida with him or the latest Signal imbroglio.
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CNN noticed this, too. And on Tuesday, the network aired a montage of several different people who were on that text chain, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz all denouncing Hillary Clinton and demanding that she be prosecuted or suffer other punishments.
BREAKING: CNN just aired this DEVASTATING montage of all the senior Trump officials in the Signal chat attacking Hillary Clinton for using a private email server. These are hypocrites who need to be called out! pic.twitter.com/ZkYK0C6BWV
— Trump’s Lies (Commentary) (@MAGALieTracker) March 25, 2025
Waltz, a former member of Congress, is the one who accidentally invited Goldberg onto the text chain over Signal, a commercial messsaging app that is not supposed to be used for high-level war planning.
Jeffrey Goldberg, who is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and also a writer who has done some damaging reporting about Trump over the years, originally suspected that the text chain was an elaborate disinformation operation, and continued to have doubts about how real it was all the way up until the attack on Yemen was actually underway on March 15.
“I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling,” he said.
At that point, Goldberg exited the chat. Then, on Monday, shortly before the article was published, he reached out for comment to the people included.
Trump said in an interview Tuesday that he believes Waltz made a mistake, but gave him a vote of confidence.
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