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Signal Scandal Update: The Atlantic Calls Trump's Bluff, Releases The Classified War Plans [1]
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Date: 2025-03-26
Yesterday multiple members of the Trump Regime swore under oath that no classified messages had been included in the text chain sent to Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. They expressly stated the texts did not include any war plans. Trump repeatedly suggested Goldberg was lying and called The Atlantic a sleazy magazine.
This was very stupid dishonesty by Trump and the Regime. Today The Atlantic responded by releasing more of the content from the texts. Former Fox News host, now Secretary of Defense, Pete Hesgeth texted the exact weapons systems that would be used, exactly when they would be used, that there would be two waves of strikes and exactly when each wave would start. The picture above reflects all this. Can there be any serious claim that was not classified at the time?
An enemy receiving this information would know exactly what to look to look for (F-18s, MQ-9 drones and Tomahawk missiles) and exactly when to look for each of them. If the person identified as the "Target Terrorist" even thinks that might be him, he would know to move. And if that “Target Terrorist” needed help as to whether it was him, the text exchange included this:
Beyond that the terrorists would know to move everything and everyone that could possibly be hit with those weapons systems.
All of this was sent to a reporter, on a commercial app, and to other people sitting in Russia. This idiocy risked the lives of the F-18 pilots on this mission. Had any service member released this information they would be court martialed.
Just yesterday, the Trump Regime lied to you about it. Trump lied about it and tried to smear the journalist who is the only person in this sad story that acted professionally and ethically. What's more Goldberg says there is some stuff so sensitive he has not yet released it because the CIA begged him not to. Yet the Trump Regime continues to present this as a harmless little mistake that didn't really involve critical classified information.
UPDATE
Confronted with her lies yesterday Gabbard simply declares that she didn’t remember. Thing is her testimony was not that she didn’t remember.
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