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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications [1]
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Date: 2025-04-02
The Washington Post was first with the scoop about National Security Advisory to Trump, Mike Waltz. Already famous for being a national security risk.
The Washington Post says that "one of Waltz's top aides used Gmail for 'highly technical conversations with colleagues that other government agencies sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems related to an ongoing conflict.'"
"While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government issued accounts, headers from the email show."
NSC spokesman Brian Hughes told Fox News that the Washington Post story was designed to "distract the American people from President Trump's successful national security agenda that's protecting our nation."
Shades of Karoline Leavitt. "Successful national security agenda." Trump doesn't have an agenda. He doesn't even have a calendar. Like yesterday he put the tariffs into effect that were supposed to happen today, April 2nd. Trump's April Fools' Day joke.
Hughes said, "Let me reiterate, NSA Waltz received emails and calendar invites from legacy contacts on his personal email..."
Hughes followed with comments not very reassuring that Waltz, "...cc'd government accounts to ensure compliance with record retention, and he has never sent classified material over his personal email account or any unsecured platform."
Umm, can we just look at those emails and verify that? Doesn't that mean he has been using Gmail for government work that while maybe wasn't classified, still had important non-public information?
Hakeem Jeffries had a thing or two to say after hearing about the Washington Post report. "Mike Waltz is totally and completely unqualified to be in a sensitive national security position, as is the case with the Trump national security team."
Jeffries reiterated what he's been saying since the exposure of Signalgate, that Hegseth "has got to go. He needs to be fired if he doesn't resign immediately." Asked if Waltz should do the same, Hakeem said his statement, "speaks for itself."
Now we'll see if this produces another blowup like Signalgate did, or just adds to the scrutiny of the original event that Trump is doing everything he can do to sweep it all under the rug.
Maybe we don't need to wonder, as Waltz created and hosted other Signal chats about Somalia and the war in Ukraine. That was reported in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
Once the Signal chat on the attack of the Houthis became known, most figured there were more. There were.
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