President Donald Trump Incoherent response To senior military and intelligence officials Parishing national security by Sharing details of an imminent military strike On the application of unsafe text messages raises a terrifying question: Who runs things here?
Trump has repeatedly said that he had not been briefed on Huge security endsOr showing that he does not understand what happened – none of them is reassuring.
For example, on the day the Atlantic Editor -in -Chief Jeffrey Goldberg has been informed that he appears to have been inadvertently added to a signal chat with Vice President JD Vance, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Minister Pete HegSth, and other national security officials where they were discussing an imminent attack on a rebel group in YEMEN, Trump said he did not happen.
“I don’t know anything about it,” Trump He said Correspondents at the White House. “I am not a great admirer of the Atlantic animal. For me, it is a magazine that runs out of work. But I don’t know anything about it. You say they have what?”
The question was asked hours after the article was published, giving him a great time to prepare a response. What’s more, because Goldberg has arrived at the White House to comment before publishing the article; Trump should have even known Taller The story was coming. The fact that he said that he does not know about it means that either he is lying or not kept in the episode by his employees – which is once again terrible scenarios.
Then on Wednesday, days after the outbreak of the story, he gave Trump interview To the right PodCaster Vince Koglianz who suggested that he does not even know what the signal messaging application is.
“But someone in my group is either tight or it is a bad sign. It is a bad sign, also happens,” Trump He saidIt seems that this scandal revolves around a literal signal and not the application of the signaling.
In addition, on Wednesday, when the Atlantic Ocean is More texts have been released He showed that Higseth has participated in secret information in the thread about the exact time of attacks and what weapons will be used, Trump falsely claimed to reporters that Higseth was not involved.
“HegSeth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do with this. He said While sitting in the oval office.
Trump then continued to make more logical comments on the signal, while giving an answer that makes what the administration officials looks at the end of the day worse.
“You want to ask whether the signal is working or not? I don’t know that the signal is working. I think the sign may be flawed to be honest with you. I think this is what we have to do, because you use the sign and use the signal and every person uses the signal, but it may be a defective platform and we will have to know that.”
Certainly, this response does not help Trump’s argument that all this is just a trick, given that we know that his aides use a signal to share the classified information – which Trump described as a “defective platform”.
Of course, Trump is a notorious liar and I am fool, so you never know if he is lying in playing stupid, or does not really understand what is going on.
In this case, it is likely that the matter is both, as Trump is the illiterate technological – who believes that his son is a type of genius because he is because he is A laptop can be turned on– Perhaps he does not understand the sign.
However, we must have a belief that our president has an understanding of what is going on and will carry his administration responsible for putting lives on the line by discussing the classified information that American forces can kill.
But given that Trump Refuse For security, Defending bad behavior One of the officials of the cabinet is not efficient, and the lying about the scandal itself is that it is.trick“We do not keep our breath that any accountability is on the way.