Trump issues stunning response to group chat scandal - Brian Tyler Cohen

[TexasTowelie]

Transcript, Trump's response highlighted:

Some explosive reporting from the
Atlantic were in several prominent
members of the Trump Administration
including Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Tulsi
Gabbard, Marco Rubio and John Ratcliffe
were discussing War plans over the
messenger app signal and accidentally
invited the editor of the Atlantic into
the group chat really big day for the
butter emails crowd to show us whether
they actually care about that kind of
stuff or not I mean take a look at this
headline in subhead the Trump
Administration accidentally texted me
its War plans US National Security
leaders included me in a group chat
about up coming military strikes in
Yemen I didn't think it could be real
then the bombs started falling and
obviously the Fallout has been Swift and
severe among everyone other than the
butter emails party Senator Mark Kelly
tweeted notice to White House staff
there is a room in the building and
secure systems where you are supposed to
have these discussions signal ain't it
the recklessness put the lives of those
Pilots at risk you got lucky time to
re-evaluate the way that you are doing
things but one person who was not only
laxed but apparently completely ignorant
about all of this was the president of
the United States himself Mr President
Mr. President, your reaction to the
story of the Atlantic that said that
some of your top Cabinet officials
and aides have been discussing very
sensitive material through Signal and
and included an Atlantic reporter for
that what is your response? To that I
don't know anything about it I'm not a
big fan of the Atlantic it's to me it's
a magazine that's going out of business
I think it's not much of a magazine but
I know nothing about it. you're saying
that they had what they they were using
signal uh to ordinate on sensitive
materials and having to do with
what having to do with what what were
they talking about with the Houthis the
Houthis you mean the attack on the Houthis
well it couldn't have been very
effective because the attack was very
effective I can tell you that I don't
know anything about it you're you're
telling me about it for the first time
anybody else so tell me which is worse
that Donald Trump isn't concerned that
his staff is discussing War plans on
Signal and are too stupid not to invite
random people into their already
unsecure group chat or is it the fact
that Trump really had no clue what the
is going on in his own White House
and this is the administration that
claimed that Joe Biden was too clueless
to serve what would Trump himself say if
Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, and Anthony
Blinkin included the editor of the New
York Post in a group chat on WhatsApp
about their War plans do you think we'd
ever hear the end of it have we stopped
hearing about the end of Hillary
Clinton's emails and yet now suddenly
it's okay when Republicans do it here's
the deal you can now see based on their
reaction right here that it was never
about the emails in fact they don't care
about anything they claim to care about
other than the political benefit of the
attack itself these people don't stand
for anything other than the
consolidation of their own power but
just for posterity if you want to know
how we should see Republicans reacting
to this news look no further than how
Pete Hegseth himself reacted back in 2016
the people we rely on to do dangerous
and difficult thing for us rely on one
thing from us that we will not reveal
their identity and not be Reckless with
what the dangerous things they're doing
for us that's the National Security
implications of a private server that's
unsecured that's why we look at a guy
like Snowden and say he's not a hero
he's a traitor he put lives at risk and
you can get people killed when you do
that let me be clear to quote the
president Hillary Clinton if there was
anyone other than Hillary Clinton they
would be in jail right now correct for
what has been done because the
assumption is in the intelligence
Community if you are using unclassified
means there is the potential for and
likelihood that foreign governments are
targeting those accounts and Gathering
intelligence from them means that
individual and the others associated
with them have been passing around
through unsecure networks information
sources and methods of people on the
ground covers compromised in real time
this is a real deal full-blown National
Security Scandal betrayed her country in
doing so supposedly for convenience but
actually so she could have a different
set of standards and hide her conduct
and the conduct of the Clinton
Foundation Benghazi everything else so
she could stay away from and above the
law and it turns out foreign Services
want know what our secretary of state
thinks the technology uh that that
others can use once they've got into
devices is to listen and see in real
time who knows what they heard and what
they have and the kind of leverage that
that gives in negotiations or
conversations when you know what our
hand is and you can anticipate it or get
in front of it or you know our sources
and methods because we know aids to
Hillary Clinton also removed markings so
that they could send classified
sometimes secret top secret information
to her personal email which our enemies
were potentially reading in real time
time that has consequences including
lives and reputation of this great
country I'm not surprised that a
military guy like yourself is fired up
because it's people like you who pay the
price for this kind of that's exact right
extraordinary stuff and in case 2016
feels like too long ago let's fast
forward to 2023 when Hegseth that discussed
Biden's handling of classified documents
yeah I mean he is the president of the
United States which does create
complications but it also increases the
urgency if the top man in the job was
handled classified documents this
flippantly for that long why was that
the case was it really that he didn't
know cuz when you take something out of
a skiff if you're a senator you know
exactly what you're doing you know
exactly what you're doing and you're
moving it you had to sneak it out or
someone gave it to you in with the wrong
protocol which you were complicit in and
then you you you don't even know how
many you have and you've clearly hidden
them from the public uh you're the
president of the United States or how
about Marco Rubio who is also on the
signal chat when I'm president of the
United States neither She nor any of
these other people are going to be above
the law whether it's her or Eric Holder
for what he did on Fast and Furious or
any of these other folks they're going
to people are going to be held
accountable if they broke the laws of
this country this President obviously is
willing to protect his political cronies
but we're going to hold people
accountable nobody is above the law not
even Hillary Clinton even though she
thinks she is John Ratcliffe also
another member of the signal chat uh
mishandling classified information is
still a violation of the Espionage Act it
started with Hillary Clinton it has
continued without accountability people
haven't paid a price for that and that's
one of the reasons uh Bill Barr and John
Durham and folks need to really focus on
that because um there does need to be
accountability there or how about Tulsi
Gabbard who tweeted any unauthorized
release of classified information is a
violation of the law and will be treated
as such she tweeted that literally a
week ago altogether pretty tough words
from members of this signal chat who
have some very very intense feelings
about mishandling of classified
information I wonder if they all still
agree with their former selves or if all
that matters is being morally malleable
to fit the moment something tells me
that we all know the answer to that
question at this point you would be
hard-pressed to find even a single
example of what Republicans pretended to
stand for that they haven't immediately
undermined with their own behavior or
actions the party of fiscal
responsibility is right now blowing up
the deficit to yet again pay for tax
cuts for themselves the party of family
values has thrown in its with a serial
predator and in fact Trump himself tried
to make the literal attorney general an
accused sex trafficker in Matt Gates the
party of the police has set idly by
while Trump released 1600
insurrectionists many of whom beat the
out of cops and now the party of
National Security is going over War
plans in random group chats with people
they don't even know are in the chat
watching along these people again stand
for nothing other than their own pursuit
of power and they're making it
abundantly clear on a daily basis.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He's lying or his staff is incompetent to not prepare him if there is a major controversy, ... or both

Thanks for the transcript.

[joshdawg]

2. My vote goes for both.

He lies and his incompetent staff swear to it.

Still can't believe something like this was ever elected as "p"OTUS.

[William769]

3. I got nothing.

[ReRe]

4. He's lying through his teeth

You won't find no "The Buck Stops Here" on his desk!
Every time his mouth opens, a lie rolls out. Bank on it.

[Grokenstein]

5. The usual blather with a little bonus material.

Everyone who criticizes him is "failing" or "going out of business soon," nothing new there.

But he also basically admits he has no clue what's going on while he's so super-busy golfing and carrying out his petty little revenge bullshit.

[oasis]

6. This colossal blunder ain't going away soon!

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. 🤡