Latest Trump scandal was avoidable, and is inexcusable
BY: JACOB POLITTE
Managing Editor
Things seem to happen at light speed in the Trump administration, which can make covering it accurately quite difficult and definitely exhausting. While the administration seems in total lockstep for better or for worse, the scandals and controversy have not ended and likely never will. With that said, one of the latest Trump administration scandals was a big indicator on just how incompetent this administration can be, and a big reminder how hypocritical the Republican Party is.
Let me be clear (especially to all of the FOX News anchors/hosts doing their best to divert attention away from it): after the Signal Group Chat leak that saw multiple administration members implicated in using unauthorized methods of communication, I never want to hear a word from them about Hillary Clinton’s emails ever again. Of course, I know they will continue to bring that up, because politicians like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden live rent-free in their heads, regardless of if their side is in power or not.
But to condemn those actions, but not those of current government officials literally texting war plans and target descriptions over a public and unsecured app, with messages sent set to disappear after a few weeks (highly illegal by the way), is hypocritical. It absolutely reinforces the perception amongst left-leaning individuals, and even some in the center that Republicans will excuse anything that doesn’t directly benefit them.
The accidental addition of The Atlantic’s Editor-In-Chief Jeffery Goldberg to the Group Chat also reinforces the current administration’s incompetence. The fact that Goldberg himself was never discovered and had to remove himself from the chat before anyone noticed? One of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen out of either Trump administration. And that’s not a low bar to clear, by the way.
If Donald Trump is the leader he claims to be, he should immediately fire Tulsi Gabbard. He should fire Mike Waltz. He should fire Pete Hegseth. He should fire everyone in that group chat except for JD Vance, and that’s only because he’s constitutionally unable to fire JD Vance. By the way, if the Republican majority in Congress actually cared about national security, JD Vance would be impeached and removed.
But of course, none of that will happen. Hypocrisy wins, as always. And if there’s one thing that’s clear about the next four years, it’s that there will be no accountability when something like this, or something even worse, happens again. And it will happen again. No heads will roll, because the heads are loyal to President Trump and President Trump only. That’s all that matters to him, and the Democrats who haven’t given up hope yet are not in a position to combat his incompetence.
The security of the rest of the country is just collateral damage.
