The Ides of March are long past, but a general air of hinkyness lingers — mostly for Trumpsters, we're happy to say. However, we do have some serious collateral damage. Our national security, for one.
As the world now knows, the security breach about bombing Yemen on Signal, which happened March 14-15, roped in Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. Accidentally? On purpose? It's unclear. "It should go without saying — but I’ll say it anyway — that I have never been invited to a White House principals-committee meeting," Goldberg said today. "In my many years of reporting on national-security matters, I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app."
So many fuck-ups here. "The remarkable thing is that no one in the group asked, 'Who's JG?'" Goldberg said. "And when I removed myself from the group, seemingly nobody said, 'Hey, why did JG leave?'" You'd think that maybe some of the Russians on the call might have asked the same questions. (Yes, we're serious — with one of their prime assets back in the White House, you have to assume Team Putin knows everything we do now. See Vlad, above.)
A few thoughts:
Can you imagine how the Republicans would have reacted if the Biden Administration had done this? They would have impeached Biden yesterday. FOX "News" would have talked about nothing else for months (maybe years). Congressional hearings would never end.
We would've loved to have seen Dick Cheney's and Liz Cheney's faces when this story broke. Also Adam Kinzinger's.
Perhaps the only happy Republican in the country today is former Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn, who was recently hauled off to the hoosegow for trying to pay a 17-year-old for sex. Things have gotten even dicier for him lately — he's been caught attempting to conceal evidence — but at least the Trump Signal scandal has pushed him off the front pages. (Shades of Gary Condit and 9/11!)
We never want to hear "But her emails" again. We cats HISS.
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