The idea that our national security could be so easily and quickly dismantled is more about purposeful corruption than even their blatant incompetence. One was even in Moscow during the call. They’ve also completed the task of working as a foreign asset not having to be registered and closed all our cyber security offices. All this in the last week. We are being invaded by enemies. From within. And they’re winning. Because the volume and speed they’re doing it is incomprehensible to our complacent minds.
Yes, Mary, a huge shoutout to Goldberg is certainly in order. He is risking a lot taking on the wrath of the moron and his henchmen. It’s distressing to see a continuation of the belittling of the press’ most distinguished members by Trump and his clowns. Goldberg is among that group, and I’ve admired his writing and his leadership of The Atlantic for years. Trump is perfectly willing to trot out all the tools of retribution at his disposal, and they are willing to do his bidding, or so it seems; DOJ, IRS, HHS. All guilty. In some ways this attempt at throttling the free press is more serious than the shenanigans by the bunch of clowns in that group grope.
DJT, and his Minions are Assaulting at the least the 1st & 4th Amendments... If you are a compromised Lawyer, then the DJT Regime has a place for you...
I’ve been a subscriber to The Atlantic for several years now, and I’ve never considered canceling it. It’s an excellent source of information.
And by the way.. … Jeffrey Goldberg is the journalist who exposed Trump’s comments during his first term about veterans being “suckers and losers.” No love lost there between the two.
I would disagree that we have complacent minds, and the volume and speed they're doing it at is allowing them to "win".
What's allowing them to win is the people who are SUPPOSED to stop them, are fully complicit with it, and even cheering it on. And some of them purport to be on our side, but they still voted to confirm these clownish buffoons, so really, how much on OUR side are they really?
Right? I probably shouldn’t have said « complacent » though. More like « comfortable » because I don’t think Americans like me thought this could happen so swiftly.
What really scares me, as if there’s not enough to sh*t worry about over the next 3+ years, is the warning pre 2020 election. “If 🤡 wins, this could be our last election”. State Repubs will be a lot more willing to do whatever it takes, including breaking the law, because what consequence do they have to worry about?
If only a good portion of the Dems weren’t siding with the Houthis!! Dems seem determined to continue to ignore the economic pain of their base and instead waste their time on trans rights (all ten or so such athletes) and free speech for terrorists. Can they even tax the rich? Or the leaders are too rich themselves to care about it.
I think "RDW" is yet another spambot account? If you look at its posts.... same pattern of random restacks mixed with peculiar and incomprehensible sentence fragments with keywords in them. And the comments have that weird chatGPT quality.
It was a bit off topic and I am glad that they are falling prey to their stupidity or that someone is setting these guys up (as West Point Goggin theorizes); however, if you think the base base cares a wit, you are mistaken. It’s more 14th Amendment theoretical folderol to them. The adults have left the building and Putin or whoever has infested their motor-neuron controls. Let’s see if the democrats prevent the extension of the trump tax cuts. By their deeds you shall know them. Sold out and selling us out and that’s on both sides of the aisle.
There needs to be a Nuremberg trial like setup for all these people after this is all said and done. These people need to face the consequences for what they have done to us.
Interesting that you mention the Nuremberg trials. Something that so few people would remember although there have been some excellent films about them (the trials.) I still think the best had Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy as lead actors. At the end of the film Lancaster, a German judge, faces Tracy, an American judge sent to Nuremberg to preside over the trials. He pleads with Tracy to understand that “he didn’t know it would come to this” when he bowed down to the Nazis at the start of the Reich. Tracy replies (I am paraphrasing slightly as I don’t have the actual script): “You knew it would come to this the first time you convicted a man you knew to be innocent.” Given what’s gone on in the Trump administration this week I can think of several incidents this statement would apply to. We should have known it would come to this—the blatant lying and no one caring that the lies can so easily be disproven with actual facts—when Mitch McConnell could, in the space of a few weeks, go from saying that January 6th rioting was provoked by Trump, to not holding Trump accountable through impeachment. Accountability in government had its fatal stroke that day.
My uncle was a US Army major, an attorney, forced by his allegiance to our country to defend Nazis at the Buchenwald Trials. When told they had to do this, he and the other US officers objected vehemently but they did it. My uncle eventually was able to be a prosecutor and, finally, a judge at the trials. Every person on that Signal chat, other than Goldberg, of course, should face a tribunal and soon.
I wouldn't say "no one cared." Apparently those in positions to do something about it - like Congress - don't care. But many of us - the People - do care deeply. See you in the streets April 5.
I am just remembering how long it took in the 1960s with protests against the war and for civil rights. And we weren't looking to topple a corrupt president and there was more diversity in Congress in terms of opinions. Still we must have hope, we must have hope....
That's the problem though. As quickly as they are moving, all they need to do is create enough chaos so Trump has an excuse to declare martial law "to fix it".....his very own Reichschtag moment, which will suspend all laws and the Constitution. Then he's got himself a dictatorship, and there's not a hell of a lot we can do to stop it. That's been their plan all along. That's why he's got Musk with his filthy hands in everything, creating havoc and planting little bombs in all the government systems. And no, they're not looking for fraud.....they're planting little programs which they will execute all at once. Then all he has to do is issue a single digital command to all systems, and the entire government goes down, which they then blame on "domestic terrorists" or immigrants, and there's Trump's perfect excuse to declare martial law. We may never see a free and fair election again, or have our Nuremberg Trials, because it will already be too late. We are much closer to losing this democracy than most people know.
As I watched this Insanity unfold, all I could think is "This is going to make a great Cold Opening for SNL. It felt like one, the characters in his cabinet are so inept. It would be funny if it wasn't a daily occurrence!! As to that the destruction wreaked by the Tangerine Tyrant and his Puppet Master.
I want that too. I fear, however, that we are no longer a society that seeks to understand or bring true justice. Just killing the “enemy” is enough now. Eternally grateful that the folks who set up the Nuremberg trials didn’t think that way. (6 of my family members were murdered, father lived as a “half-Jew” in Nazi Germany, spent 6 months in a forced labor camp which US army liberated)
Susan, I am so sorry for your family and for everyone who suffered or suffered and died or lost loved ones. Thank you for sharing. I am glad you are here. We thought that after our loved ones came home after working to end that, that nothing of the kind could ever happen again. That is the impression I always had from my family and friends.
As important as the Nuremberg trials were, they happened years after the crimes. Your country is almost passed the point of no return. Setting up anything other than getting those ridiculous clowns out of office, and I mean from the top down, will save you. Good luck because all the rich are getting richer and it doesn’t matter which team they play for. You have a few voices speaking out for your side but The vast majority are silent.
I have really appreciated The Atlantic during these tough times. The integrity the editor has in waiting to share this story, and to withhold details until the Trump administration started the lying, shows great character. Kudos to Mr. Goldberg.
This Hegseth post is deeply troubling: "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC." What is pathetic is that we no longer have the support or respect of our allies. A complete and utter embarrassment!
My sister married a Spaniard, so my niece and nephews are Spanish. I spoke to them today. It is awful to hear what they think of the US now. They are not very political and not alarmist at all, but they told me that the government has recommended that people have 72 hours of food and water because of the Trump Putin alliance!
Sadly for America, this clusterfuck was all too predictable. Hiring unqualified, asskissing sycophants to do the nation’s important work, are disasters waiting to happen. This won’t be the last. Thanks for all you do, Mary.
A disgraceful security fiasco compounded by trying to shamefully discredit Jeffrey Goldberg. He did nothing wrong and shone a light on the OpSec failings of the amateur Trump regime. 🤯
This is Unbelievable Bullshit 😩 could you just imagine If the Biden administration would have done this⁉️ Republicans would be on Fire 🔥🔥🔥 and the Fox channel would be Blowing Up 💥 with coverage 24/7 on the TV. This has to be the Worst National Security Blunder in History. Let's just see if these Morons are held accountable (I'm not going to hold my breath) ! Thank you, Mary, for sharing your thoughts this morning ☕ and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Thank you Ms. Trump. Jeffrey Goldberg is a patriot and brilliant journalist. And, unlike these thugs, a person of intellect and character who chose not to expose a vulnerable CIA operative.
Great summary Mary. And, as usual, you are one of the few people with the fortitude to lay bare the truth of what happened with clear language and no shading. Rather than echo the outrage over the actions of these unqualified flunkies, which I share, I'd like to point out how out of the loop POTUS was on this entire operation. It appears that he shot his mouth off about attacking the Houthis and then left it entirely to his underlings to execute the plan. One would think that the President would be involved on a granular level with a military operation of this magnitude. But, as usual, Dumb Donnie was far too busy playing golf and posting garbage on Truth Social to be engaged a in matter of state, which is his actual job. Can you imagine the outcry on MAGA media if all of this had happened on Biden's watch? We'd never hear the end of it until scalps were obtained and even then the drumbeat would likely continue for the duration of Biden's term. Yet, all we hear from Trump State Media is an echo of the gaslighting and outright lying emanating from Trump, Leavitt, Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, etc. When the F is America going to wake up to the disaster that is DJT and his staff of clowns?
I was appalled when, interviewed with Hawaiian palm trees swaying behind him, Hegseth parroted TCF's anti-Atlantic Monthly talking points verbatim: a) "Russia, Russia, Russia!"; "very good people on both sides", etc. Like the hair-gelled Fox News android that he is.
If Pete Hegseth is coming to your parlor to "set a spell", don't forget to place antimacassars on your high-backed upholstered furniture!
Good commentary on deplorable, inexcusable top security breach. All people on group chat deserve to have security clearances removed and be terminated as well as the Senior Management, including Pete Hegseth. Every single Trump staff member who has lied following the courageous news release by the journalist also need to be terminated for false information to the public and obstruction.
Is this grounds for impeachment?
Thank you for returning to print format. I am news exhausted and seek written material only.
They used Signal b/c they did not want to leave a record behind that could have been accessed in the future when we charge the regime with crimes against humanity.
this piece. It does befit her "tough broad" demeanor and Cruella de Ville appearance. What I simply cannot wrap my head around is how incredibly stupid all of their responses have been. Their continued reliance on "do not believe your lying eyes/ears" stuns one's sensibilities. If only we had a functioning two-party system...
No, you need a MULTI party system like most functioning democracies. Canada has 5 parties. They keep the main two in line and express the feelings of those 1/3 of US voters who just didn't bother voting.
The idea that our national security could be so easily and quickly dismantled is more about purposeful corruption than even their blatant incompetence. One was even in Moscow during the call. They’ve also completed the task of working as a foreign asset not having to be registered and closed all our cyber security offices. All this in the last week. We are being invaded by enemies. From within. And they’re winning. Because the volume and speed they’re doing it is incomprehensible to our complacent minds.
Yes, Mary, a huge shoutout to Goldberg is certainly in order. He is risking a lot taking on the wrath of the moron and his henchmen. It’s distressing to see a continuation of the belittling of the press’ most distinguished members by Trump and his clowns. Goldberg is among that group, and I’ve admired his writing and his leadership of The Atlantic for years. Trump is perfectly willing to trot out all the tools of retribution at his disposal, and they are willing to do his bidding, or so it seems; DOJ, IRS, HHS. All guilty. In some ways this attempt at throttling the free press is more serious than the shenanigans by the bunch of clowns in that group grope.
DJT, and his Minions are Assaulting at the least the 1st & 4th Amendments... If you are a compromised Lawyer, then the DJT Regime has a place for you...
I’ve been a subscriber to The Atlantic for several years now, and I’ve never considered canceling it. It’s an excellent source of information.
And by the way.. … Jeffrey Goldberg is the journalist who exposed Trump’s comments during his first term about veterans being “suckers and losers.” No love lost there between the two.
I would disagree that we have complacent minds, and the volume and speed they're doing it at is allowing them to "win".
What's allowing them to win is the people who are SUPPOSED to stop them, are fully complicit with it, and even cheering it on. And some of them purport to be on our side, but they still voted to confirm these clownish buffoons, so really, how much on OUR side are they really?
I agree. I think a better term might have been « comfortable ». And yes. The complicity of republicans toward fascist has been stunningly horrific.
They’re a bunch of tools for Putin.
I know, it's like getting whiplash/watching a tennis match. None of this is thought out in advance. Can they all stroke out at the same time ?
Right? I probably shouldn’t have said « complacent » though. More like « comfortable » because I don’t think Americans like me thought this could happen so swiftly.
I don't think anyone thought it would happen that quickly.
Why have “they” let it get this far, WHY?
Perhaps you did not read Project 2025 — it declared intention to make rapid changes
Or at all... it never once crossed my mind that MY country, the defender of freedom would ever elect someone so heinous
AND THEN DO IT AGAIN
we must somehow deserve this ?
A lot of people are cattle and want to be lead
Oh, Lisa!! "Can they all stroke out at the same time ?" Yes.
Yes, in a just universe.
Yes
What really scares me, as if there’s not enough to sh*t worry about over the next 3+ years, is the warning pre 2020 election. “If 🤡 wins, this could be our last election”. State Repubs will be a lot more willing to do whatever it takes, including breaking the law, because what consequence do they have to worry about?
Dt even told us during his 2024 campaign, "Vote for me, and you'll never have to vote again." Probably the only campaign promise he intends to keep.
I'm holding on to the hope that they will not win
If only a good portion of the Dems weren’t siding with the Houthis!! Dems seem determined to continue to ignore the economic pain of their base and instead waste their time on trans rights (all ten or so such athletes) and free speech for terrorists. Can they even tax the rich? Or the leaders are too rich themselves to care about it.
How to show you’re clueless in one post. Sad!
I think "RDW" is yet another spambot account? If you look at its posts.... same pattern of random restacks mixed with peculiar and incomprehensible sentence fragments with keywords in them. And the comments have that weird chatGPT quality.
It was a bit off topic and I am glad that they are falling prey to their stupidity or that someone is setting these guys up (as West Point Goggin theorizes); however, if you think the base base cares a wit, you are mistaken. It’s more 14th Amendment theoretical folderol to them. The adults have left the building and Putin or whoever has infested their motor-neuron controls. Let’s see if the democrats prevent the extension of the trump tax cuts. By their deeds you shall know them. Sold out and selling us out and that’s on both sides of the aisle.
There needs to be a Nuremberg trial like setup for all these people after this is all said and done. These people need to face the consequences for what they have done to us.
Interesting that you mention the Nuremberg trials. Something that so few people would remember although there have been some excellent films about them (the trials.) I still think the best had Burt Lancaster and Spencer Tracy as lead actors. At the end of the film Lancaster, a German judge, faces Tracy, an American judge sent to Nuremberg to preside over the trials. He pleads with Tracy to understand that “he didn’t know it would come to this” when he bowed down to the Nazis at the start of the Reich. Tracy replies (I am paraphrasing slightly as I don’t have the actual script): “You knew it would come to this the first time you convicted a man you knew to be innocent.” Given what’s gone on in the Trump administration this week I can think of several incidents this statement would apply to. We should have known it would come to this—the blatant lying and no one caring that the lies can so easily be disproven with actual facts—when Mitch McConnell could, in the space of a few weeks, go from saying that January 6th rioting was provoked by Trump, to not holding Trump accountable through impeachment. Accountability in government had its fatal stroke that day.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time!
My uncle was a US Army major, an attorney, forced by his allegiance to our country to defend Nazis at the Buchenwald Trials. When told they had to do this, he and the other US officers objected vehemently but they did it. My uncle eventually was able to be a prosecutor and, finally, a judge at the trials. Every person on that Signal chat, other than Goldberg, of course, should face a tribunal and soon.
👍
I wouldn't say "no one cared." Apparently those in positions to do something about it - like Congress - don't care. But many of us - the People - do care deeply. See you in the streets April 5.
I am just remembering how long it took in the 1960s with protests against the war and for civil rights. And we weren't looking to topple a corrupt president and there was more diversity in Congress in terms of opinions. Still we must have hope, we must have hope....
That's the problem though. As quickly as they are moving, all they need to do is create enough chaos so Trump has an excuse to declare martial law "to fix it".....his very own Reichschtag moment, which will suspend all laws and the Constitution. Then he's got himself a dictatorship, and there's not a hell of a lot we can do to stop it. That's been their plan all along. That's why he's got Musk with his filthy hands in everything, creating havoc and planting little bombs in all the government systems. And no, they're not looking for fraud.....they're planting little programs which they will execute all at once. Then all he has to do is issue a single digital command to all systems, and the entire government goes down, which they then blame on "domestic terrorists" or immigrants, and there's Trump's perfect excuse to declare martial law. We may never see a free and fair election again, or have our Nuremberg Trials, because it will already be too late. We are much closer to losing this democracy than most people know.
I expect so.
We're on the Titanic
As I watched this Insanity unfold, all I could think is "This is going to make a great Cold Opening for SNL. It felt like one, the characters in his cabinet are so inept. It would be funny if it wasn't a daily occurrence!! As to that the destruction wreaked by the Tangerine Tyrant and his Puppet Master.
Yeah it would be funny if it wasn't real.
My point exactly. It's horrifying to watch our reputation as a nation circling the toilet.
It's very shameful. I go to bed each night thankful I survived another day in this nightmare. And know it's another day closer to the end of this.
I want that too. I fear, however, that we are no longer a society that seeks to understand or bring true justice. Just killing the “enemy” is enough now. Eternally grateful that the folks who set up the Nuremberg trials didn’t think that way. (6 of my family members were murdered, father lived as a “half-Jew” in Nazi Germany, spent 6 months in a forced labor camp which US army liberated)
Susan, I am so sorry for your family and for everyone who suffered or suffered and died or lost loved ones. Thank you for sharing. I am glad you are here. We thought that after our loved ones came home after working to end that, that nothing of the kind could ever happen again. That is the impression I always had from my family and friends.
Nothing will happen to these morons. They will all suffer a slap on the wrist.
If that
As important as the Nuremberg trials were, they happened years after the crimes. Your country is almost passed the point of no return. Setting up anything other than getting those ridiculous clowns out of office, and I mean from the top down, will save you. Good luck because all the rich are getting richer and it doesn’t matter which team they play for. You have a few voices speaking out for your side but The vast majority are silent.
Before all of this is said and done
I have really appreciated The Atlantic during these tough times. The integrity the editor has in waiting to share this story, and to withhold details until the Trump administration started the lying, shows great character. Kudos to Mr. Goldberg.
The Atlantic is one of the finest publications out there. Three cheers for its editor@
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Yes, Julie Lawson, I share great respect for Mr. Goldberg and the Atlantic for truly caring about our country and honesty in their publications.
This Hegseth post is deeply troubling: "I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC." What is pathetic is that we no longer have the support or respect of our allies. A complete and utter embarrassment!
My sister married a Spaniard, so my niece and nephews are Spanish. I spoke to them today. It is awful to hear what they think of the US now. They are not very political and not alarmist at all, but they told me that the government has recommended that people have 72 hours of food and water because of the Trump Putin alliance!
Sadly for America, this clusterfuck was all too predictable. Hiring unqualified, asskissing sycophants to do the nation’s important work, are disasters waiting to happen. This won’t be the last. Thanks for all you do, Mary.
A disgraceful security fiasco compounded by trying to shamefully discredit Jeffrey Goldberg. He did nothing wrong and shone a light on the OpSec failings of the amateur Trump regime. 🤯
This is Unbelievable Bullshit 😩 could you just imagine If the Biden administration would have done this⁉️ Republicans would be on Fire 🔥🔥🔥 and the Fox channel would be Blowing Up 💥 with coverage 24/7 on the TV. This has to be the Worst National Security Blunder in History. Let's just see if these Morons are held accountable (I'm not going to hold my breath) ! Thank you, Mary, for sharing your thoughts this morning ☕ and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
Right now it’s difficult to see where anyone is being held accountable for anything, WHY IS THAT?
Thank you Ms. Trump. Jeffrey Goldberg is a patriot and brilliant journalist. And, unlike these thugs, a person of intellect and character who chose not to expose a vulnerable CIA operative.
If Mike Waltz (does he dance?) cannot manage his cell phone, how can he manage national security?
Like Rudy Ghouliani's "butt dialing"?
Great summary Mary. And, as usual, you are one of the few people with the fortitude to lay bare the truth of what happened with clear language and no shading. Rather than echo the outrage over the actions of these unqualified flunkies, which I share, I'd like to point out how out of the loop POTUS was on this entire operation. It appears that he shot his mouth off about attacking the Houthis and then left it entirely to his underlings to execute the plan. One would think that the President would be involved on a granular level with a military operation of this magnitude. But, as usual, Dumb Donnie was far too busy playing golf and posting garbage on Truth Social to be engaged a in matter of state, which is his actual job. Can you imagine the outcry on MAGA media if all of this had happened on Biden's watch? We'd never hear the end of it until scalps were obtained and even then the drumbeat would likely continue for the duration of Biden's term. Yet, all we hear from Trump State Media is an echo of the gaslighting and outright lying emanating from Trump, Leavitt, Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, etc. When the F is America going to wake up to the disaster that is DJT and his staff of clowns?
I was appalled when, interviewed with Hawaiian palm trees swaying behind him, Hegseth parroted TCF's anti-Atlantic Monthly talking points verbatim: a) "Russia, Russia, Russia!"; "very good people on both sides", etc. Like the hair-gelled Fox News android that he is.
If Pete Hegseth is coming to your parlor to "set a spell", don't forget to place antimacassars on your high-backed upholstered furniture!
Good commentary on deplorable, inexcusable top security breach. All people on group chat deserve to have security clearances removed and be terminated as well as the Senior Management, including Pete Hegseth. Every single Trump staff member who has lied following the courageous news release by the journalist also need to be terminated for false information to the public and obstruction.
Is this grounds for impeachment?
Thank you for returning to print format. I am news exhausted and seek written material only.
Television and podcasts are assaults in my soul.
Kindly,
Elizabeth Griffin PhD
Yes Mary, thanks for writing again.
They used Signal b/c they did not want to leave a record behind that could have been accessed in the future when we charge the regime with crimes against humanity.
That plan didn't go as expected, now, did it?
😂👍yep, I think we got our record, thanks to Jeff Goldberg.
And a judge who has ordered that those Signal messages be preserved! Gooooo, judiciary!
And yet … Hillary’s email server! For a year, nothing but screaming headlines and chants of “lock her up!” The hypocracy is cold calculated evil.
Frightening
To say the least!!! Frightening is a huge understatement. Where are those who have sworn to serve and protect??
Frightened
Extremely!
I'd not heard "Putin's girlfriend" before
this piece. It does befit her "tough broad" demeanor and Cruella de Ville appearance. What I simply cannot wrap my head around is how incredibly stupid all of their responses have been. Their continued reliance on "do not believe your lying eyes/ears" stuns one's sensibilities. If only we had a functioning two-party system...
No, you need a MULTI party system like most functioning democracies. Canada has 5 parties. They keep the main two in line and express the feelings of those 1/3 of US voters who just didn't bother voting.
Yes! And The Atlantic published the text right away! Kudos to them and their professional level of real world journalism.