Bombs and Bombshells 😱✡️🌻✡️🌻✡️😱

#ButHerEmails: Hillary Clinton was pilloried by Trump and his Republican echo chamber for using her home server.  As a result of that infraction, she lost a close election, and we learned that government communication was to be restricted to government servers.  Then during Trump 1.0, we learned all about Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) and how they were the only places where top secret conversations should be held, with cell phones turned off and left outside. What no one told us is that those rules pertain only to Democrats, that Republicans, particularly those working for Trump who got away with storing his document stash in a Mar a Lago bathroom, don’t have to worry about following rules. Still, yesterday’s bombshell story, written by the Atlantic’s highly respected Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was a shocker.  Goldberg details that earlier this month he was invited into a Signal group-chat by Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.  He thought the invitation was odd, even thought that someone might be punking him, but accepted thinking that there was a chance that Waltz had something juicy to disclose. When he saw that JD Vance, Marco Rubio,  Pete Hegseth, Scott Bessent, John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard, Steve Witkoff, Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, and national security staffer Brian McCormack were also in the chatroom, he still wasn’t convinced that he wasn’t being punked but figured he’d listen in to be sure. It turns out that Goldberg, had inadvertently been invited to an all hands “chat” concerning the Pentagon’s March 15 plan to bomb the Houthis’ Yemen stronghold. He was privy to all, including VP Vance’s reservations about going forward with the bombing to deal with what he saw as just a European problem and who cares about them anyway.  Once the plans were set, Goldberg was in on the targets, the coordinates, timing, and the types of weapons to be used.  He also learned the name of a CIA officer involved in the planning and execution. The chat ended with an assurance from Pentagon head Pete Hegseth, the guy whose chief qualification for his job was his inebriated Fox appearances, assure the other members of the chat that plans for the attack were totally secure.  More convinced that the chat was for real but still not sure, on March 15 Goldberg waited in a parking lot for news that the bombs were actual being dropped. Once they were he knew he had a story to tell and so yesterday he told it, leaving out some specifics, including the name of the CIA operative, to protect US security.  So nice that a member of the press is more concerned about US security than all those moronic members of Trump’s team who had to know that their chat should have been held in a secure SCIF, rather than over leaky cell phones.  Given that they work for the Mar a Lago bathroom man, why should they worry about that?  Mar a Lago man’s reaction to the Goldberg article was to proclaim ignorance while attacking the Atlantic.  Pete Hegseth, he called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredit 'journalist' who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again," while denying that war plans had been texted even after a Pentagon spokesman acknowledged they had been. Michael Waltz who seems to be taking the most heat for setting up the chat was called in for a meeting with Trump last night.  Afterwards Trump said he still had his full confidence but who knows because Waltz, rather than Hegseth, or any of the others who should have known better, could end up being the fall guy for the idiocy if there even is a fall guy.  The Russians and Chinese are thrilled.  The other members of the Five Eyes Security alliance a lot less so.  The FBI should investigate but they won’t because its more important to target law firms, judges, and Tesla protesters.  House leadership, they could care less because they’re in Trump’s pocket.  Similarly, a few Republicans in the Senate know that the Goldberg article was scary as 💩 but they too will probably only whine, mostly behind closed doors and Democrats, they’re rightfully outraged but with little to no power to do anything about it.  Hillary Clinton’s response to yesterday’s report: You’ve got to be kidding me.”  Welcome to Trump 2.0.  Scarier by the day.

 

Human Resources:  Alina Habba who made a fool of herself representing Trump on his EJ Caroll case but who always looked good while saying and doing all the stupid things Trump told her to do was appointed yesterday to serve as the interim US Attorney for New Jersey. She immediately said that she would clean up Cory Booker’s dirty crime ridden state.  Is it a coincidence that she immediately targeted the state’s Black Senator, probably not.  Louis DeJoy who seemed like he would be the worst Postmaster General ever when Trump appointed him during his first term but who turned out to be reasonably responsible quit yesterday, effective immediately. It’s thought that he left quickly because despite being a Trumpy kind of guy, he didn’t want to have anything to do with Musk and Trump’s slash and burn “privatization” plans.  Trump nominated Susan Monarez, currently the acting head of the CDC, to be the permanent head.  There’s not a lot to read about Monarez so far.  The good news is that she’s thought to be more rational when it comes to vaccines than Trump’s first RFK approved nominee.  The not so good news is that as acting head she’s made herself scarce, abetting some of the cuts that have been made so far in some very crucial CDC functions.  DHS head Kristin Noem who, if reports are true, plans to visit the El Salvador prison/hell hole where deportees are being held announced yesterday that FEMA is being disbanded because really, who needs FEMA when hurricanes and other national disasters are on an upswing?   And Appeals court Judge Millet, hardly a fan of the Alien Act said that Nazis were treated better than the way we are currently treating deported Venezuelans.

 

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