"This is an embarrassment!" — here's a supercut of Senate Democrats grilling a squirming Gabbard and Ratcliffe about SignalGate during today's hearing pic.twitter.com/CtyLLSQZdk
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 25, 2025
Don’t worry about this, though. President Trump is on it:
US President Donald Trump has commented on the group chat security leak, dismissing it as a leak to NBC News.
Trump told NBC News in a phone call that it was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one”, adding his national security adviser Michael Waltz had “learned a lesson”.
He also said Walz is “a good man.”
Somebody should mention to him that his entire top staff didn’t seem to know if he’d ordered the strike or whether he understood the ramifications of doing it. In fact, it took Stephen Miller stepping in to tell everyone that as he “heard it” it was “green light” and then they all stopped questioning it. What the hell was that about?
Obviously, we don’t have to belabor the rank hypocrisy of all this considering the “butheremails” bullshit. They are shameless. Still, it’s worth recalling the endless investigations into Hunter Biden’s penis, Benghazi etc. It’s pretty clear that will not happen with this.
As you know, the Democrats have been under tremendous pressure from their constituents to DO SOMETHING. Well, now may be the time for the Senate to pull out the Tuberville playbook and block all nominees and anything else related to National Security or the military until they open a bipartisan investigation into this incident.
There should be an FBI investigation and a Pentagon Inspector General investigation at the very least but there won’t be. Trump says it’s no biggie so that’s that when it comes to his fiefdom. But if the Democrats want to at least look like they are something other than useless mannequins in Washington they should try to keep (put) this in the headlines. Whether they will find the time or the energy to do it, I don’t know. But they do have some agency on this.
Maybe they can push the New York Times to do better than this:
