Idiocracy: White House Has Crazy New Defense of Hegseth's Bombing Chat

Source: The Daily Beast

IDIOCRACY

White House Has Crazy New Defense of Hegseth’s Bombing Chat

And now it’s blown up in their faces.

David Gardner
Chief National Correspondent

Updated Mar. 26 2025 9:38PM EDT
Published Mar. 26 2025 4:05PM EDT

When are War Plans not War Plans?

When they’re Attack Plans, silly.

The scandal is over. No more Signalgate. Mike Waltz won’t have to go on Fox News and squirm tonight. Pete Hegseth can continue to show off his tats in Honolulu. JD Vance can go on hating European freeloaders. Karoline Leavitt can go back to telling us how bad Joe Biden was.

And President Donald Trump can focus on firing people who do their jobs as opposed to saving the jobs of people who mess up.

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Because everybody with half a brain knows that whether you call it war or attack plans, what was discussed on that Signal messaging app was classified information.

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