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Hegseth military security breach on Signal shows hypocrisy of Republican Party

Standards and accountability are missing in action with the Republican Party and Trump Administration. The recent security breach is a good example.

Trump holds firm on tariffs as the White House looks for ways to calm nervous allies

Trump sees an opportunity to “change the fabric” of the U.S. with his sprawling plan to institute new global tariffs,while cracks form in his political coalition.

The leaked war chat became a scandal for Donald Trump and his administration. The Guardian has revealed new details of how it happened when journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to learn military secrets.

Anti-Hegesth Editor "Might Have Exposed Himself To Potential Criminal Liability" - The American Tribune.com

Things keep getting worse for The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg: not only has his smear job of a story about Pete Hegseth already been discredited by the Trump Administration as “sensationalist” and “deliberately false and misleading,” but it appears that he might have exposed himself to criminal liability with the report. Such is what Fox News Channel’s Mark Levin explained to viewers during the opening monologue portion of his S…

American Oversight Launches Investigation into Trump Administration’s Widespread Use of Signal  - American Oversight

Today, nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s use of the Signal messaging app for official government business, following related reporting in The Atlantic and American Oversight’s recent lawsuit regarding the administration’s use of the auto-deleting app to discuss sensitive military planning.  This investigation comes just days after the Trump administration tried to declare the Signal…

Michael Reagan | Chatgate: It’s Time to Move On

Watergate 2.0 it ain’t. But no one denies that the texting leak in a group chat about an air attack on the Houthi terrorists was an embarrassing screw-up for the Trump administration. No one seems to know yet exactly how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg ended up being included in a secret Defense Department discussion about the pending military strike in Yemen. Eighteen government officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice Presi…