The Atlantic chief editor revealed on Monday that he had been in a group of signals with the senior defense officials while discussing the strike plans against the Hutis rebels in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg writes that he was added by mistake to the Chat, which included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance, among others. And all the pearls of the Republicans for years about the holiness of protecting the classified data really sounds hollow at this time.
Whatever you think of Hillary Clinton and the decisions she made in her campaign for President against Trump in 2016, she really seems to shine. Clinton shared the history of the Atlantic on Monday with the words “you have to be joking.”
You have to be joking. pic.twitter.com/bnng4dgspi
– Hillary Clinton (@hillaryclinton) March 24, 2025
Trump was asked about rape during a press conference Monday and insisted that it was the first time I understood.
Trump asked about the officials of his cabinet, including Jeffrey Goldberg, on a Secret War Plan Signal Plan: Signal exchange:
“I don’t know anything about it. I am not a great admirer of the Atlantic. For me, it is a magazine that is out of business. It’s not a great magazine, but I don’t know anything about it.”
– Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 11:48 am
Republicans acted as Clinton’s email server was the most important thing in the world in 2016, including Marco RubioThe type that is now the Secretary of State of Donald Trump.
Last night @Seanhannity He asked me about the latest news about Hillary’s emails. This is what I had to say: pic.twitter.com/a8undb7qkv
– Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 12, 2016
Hegesh himself was extremely distressed by the management of classified data from Clinton in 2016.
“Apparently, the standard operating procedure within the Office of the Secretary of State of Clinton was to send emails that otherwise could not be printed to the maid to print them outside a safe area or from a safe area and then deliver them,” Hegseth told Fox News before the 2016 elections.
“Any professional, military, government or other professional would be fired in the act for this type of behavior and was criminally processed for being so reckless with this type of information,” Hegseth continued. “The fact that he would not be responsible for this, I think that the mind of anyone who has embraced the secrets of our nation, who has had a high secret authorization like me and others who know that even a hiccup causes a problem, and much less a standard procedure.”
What do you think@petehegseth_dodDo you think they should make people who do not protect our military secrets? Let’s listen to us? pic.twitter.com/tjujqykqje
– Sarah Longwell (@Sarahlongwell25) March 24, 2025
Trump himself said in 2016 that he would prosecute anyone who badly handled classified information, claiming that “no one will be above the law.”
August 2016 pic.twitter.com/6FG3SQ00CW
– Andy Kaczynski (@kfile) August 15, 2022
Even the chosen Democrats entered the fun, ridiculing the past statements of some members of the group chat such as Tulsi Gabbard. Minnesota Tina Smith Senator shared a screenshot of Gabbard of less than two weeks ago.
Unfortunately, hypocrisy really doesn’t seem to import much during Trump’s era. It is a strange place for those of us old enough to remember the policy of the late twentieth and early twenty -first centuries. Hypocrisy was something that could sink his political career. A Republican who hires an undocumented maid? Devastating In 2010. The complete premise of the Daily Show in the first decade of this century was “to look at these politicians being a hypocritical.”
But those times have gone a long time ago. And it doesn’t matter if Trump or someone else in his government does not adhere to the standards they establish in the past years. Everything that matters is the exercise of power. And that is what we are going to live while Trump and his thugs handle this country.