2d ago

Republicans calls for probe of Trump officials' Signal chat grow

www.bbc.com

Summary

Republican calls for an investigation into a leaked Signal chat involving senior Trump officials are growing, with Senators James Lankford and Roger Wicker urging a probe into the discussion of sensitive military plans with a journalist accidentally included.

The chat, led by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, detailed a Yemen strike and has sparked bipartisan concern over security breaches.

Trump downplayed the incident as a “glitch” and refuses to fire anyone.

Critics, including Democrats and ex-intel officials, warn the mishandling could embolden U.S. adversaries and demand resignations.

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Uhg, this would be such a good opportunity for dems to use some repub strategy. File a motion for impeachment for every stupid gaffe like this. Too bad they're so fucking useless.
- They are doing almost nothing at this point. They need to dominate the news cycle to get some message out to people instead of Trump/Musk shit.
- Absolutely agreed. It's also the most constitutional argument you can make: this president refuses to follow the law, it's endangering all of us, and the only option he leaves us - the only option available to reign in a lawless president - is his impeachment and removal.

What is there to investigate? Act! Or don't and just admit you either don't give any fucks at all, or are useless. What more is there possibly to know?
Is someone expecting a "you can't handle the truth!" moment?
The is all rhetorical. I should just not read news. Going to give myself high blood pressure over things I can't do anything about.
- News that isn't news is just clickbait. Content. Rage bait. It's the state of journalism, responding to changes in the distribution model and drop in demand for quality.
  Read the headlines. Slams, hints, calls for, demands, suggests... It's all talk and no action. It's not news it's gossip. What have we gained by endlessly platforming America's stupidest and most odious liars? High blood pressure.
- It's called 'testing the waters.'
  Politicians hate taking action, especially when they aren't sure of the outcome.
- Running your mouth is free. They can just say this now, probably knowing nothing will be done, so they can later, like during reelection, point back and say: " Well, we wanted to do something."

It was already swiped under the rug. Fox quickly ridiculed it by saying no secrets were shared and corporate media didn't want to push to hard not to look biased. They waited couple of days and media focused on new scandals.
Today's scandal is Trump's third term.
- Do you think Obama will run against Trump in 2028? /s

Does anybody care about people in Yemen? Such a fuzz about a stupid group chat while the big story could also be the airstrike and murder of people. What happened in Yemen?
- Because most people don't understand why Yemen is being bombed and it's tough to fully explain the geopolitical situation before you've lost your audiences attention.
  Yemen attacking our boats - must attack back to protect boats. That's the extent of people's knowledge.
  Even describing 'they collapsed a whole building to kill one guy' is tough - most people don't know the US has a missile that can kill one person accurately. They can't accept that people would be so cruel, so there just have been a logical reason why so many had to die to kill one person.
  But...
  Everyone can understand why inviting a journalist to your war chat group to skirt record keeping rules is a huge fuckup. It's easy to understand and it sticks in the mind.
- Nobody cares because they're brown people and/or because caring about them doesn't give righteousness points

Traitor cunts should investigate whether they want their children to inherit a country of opportunity or a client state of the blyats.
- Their environmental policies have shown that they're not worried about their children's future.

I wanna know who the fuck Jacob is

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