Hillary Clinton must have felt a strong sense of déjà vu.
For years, she was attacked for using a private email server. Trump and his supporters claimed she risked national security and should be jailed. Now, Trump’s team has done something much worse.
On Monday, The Atlantic reported that Trump’s top officials leaked U.S. war plans in a Signal group chat. Even worse, a journalist was in the chat.
Clinton’s response? Short and powerful.
She posted on X:
“👀 You have got to be kidding me.”
👀 You have got to be kidding me.https://t.co/IhhvFvw6DG pic.twitter.com/bnNG4dGSpI— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 24, 2025
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That was all she needed to say.
So, how did this happen?
Trump’s Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, accidentally texted war plans for U.S. airstrikes in Yemen to a group chat that included a journalist. The journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, first thought it was a joke. But when he read the messages, he realized he had exact details of the attack—targets, weapons, and timing.
Two hours later, the U.S. military carried out the attack.
When reporters asked Trump about the massive security mistake, he said: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic … but I know nothing about it.”
Clinton’s reaction wasn’t just about the leak. It was about the double standard. In 2016, Trump and his supporters attacked her nonstop over her emails, claiming she risked national security. At rallies, they chanted “Lock Her Up,” demanding she face criminal charges. The FBI investigated her emails and found that while some contained classified information, there was no intent to break the law and no serious security risk.
Yet now, Trump’s officials have leaked actual war plans, and the same people who attacked Clinton are involved. Pete Hegseth once said, “If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now.”
Marco Rubio claimed, “Nobody is above the law, not even Hillary Clinton.” John Ratcliffe insisted, “Mishandling classified information is still a violation of the Espionage Act.” Mike Waltz repeatedly demanded that Clinton be prosecuted. Now, these same officials have leaked military secrets in a group chat.
Instead of taking responsibility, Trump’s team brushed it off.
National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes defended the chat, saying:
“The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
No threats? A journalist literally had the war plans before the attack happened.
Pete Hegseth, one of the officials involved, tried to shift the blame by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg as “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes.”
Goldberg fired back, saying he had seen a “minute-by-minute accounting” of plans to bomb targets in Yemen associated with Houthis.
The Espionage Act makes it a crime to mishandle national defense information, even if the leak was accidental. Legal experts are already raising serious questions. Why was the U.S. discussing war plans in an unsecured chat? Who added a journalist to the group? Will anyone face consequences for this mistake? Despite the seriousness of the situation, Trump’s team is acting like it’s not a big deal.
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