Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

Rhinox

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The Atlantic released screens of the entire chat. Nothing redacted.
This comes after Trump and co declared "nothing classified was shared".

. . . . feels kinda classified to me, my dude. Like, this is genuinely top secret info being shared with a bunch of toddlers who respond with emojis. Which just adds another layer of embarrassment to this entire scandal onion.
 

wonko the sane?

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Who are actively violating the law by not creating the required internal paper trail... and openly talking about how to extort europe for the effort.

This is just massively horrible on every level.
 

Dekafox

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Who are actively violating the law by not creating the required internal paper trail... and openly talking about how to extort europe for the effort.

This is just massively horrible on every level.
Note that one of the screens also says they set it for disappearing messages after 4 weeks.
 

Rhinox

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The GOP will still call this whole thing a nothingburger (a term whose usage already makes me wants to pistol whip all of them).
They and their proxies have already started on this. There is a desperate spin going including an oped in USAToday saying this still isn't as bad as Joe Biden and his son's laptop.
The level of 'whataboutism' is the worst I've ever seen as are the leaps in logic made trying to downplay and defend this.

At the end of the day, this should be a disqualifying event for every person involved. Every one is knowingly and willfully breaking the law and sharing highly dangerous classified information on an unauthorized platform with the explicit purpose of avoiding records keeping.

And if that isn't embarrassing enough, they respond with emojis and prayer hands reacts? What are you, ******* 12?
 

wonko the sane?

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Note that one of the screens also says they set it for disappearing messages after 4 weeks.
And none is talking about it in the media: they're still gawking on "infosec leaks", and nothing else.

If a democrat had actually done this, so provably and so incompetently: everyone and their ancestors would be screaming for the entire democratic party to be removed. But this expectancy of criminality is baked in with republicans.
 

Dekafox

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And (unrelated) of course Trump is blaming Signal itself now.

And speaking of: https://www.spiegel.de/internationa...online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7
It was particularly easy for Der Spiegel reporters to discover Hegseth’s mobile number and email address. The email address and even the password associated with it could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks. It was possible to verify that the email address was used just a few days ago.
 

Axaday

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This text group thing is just unfolding beautifully. At first Goldberg was being careful to just characterize things, but when the President doing damage control insisted that nothing confidential was in there, that gave total cover for Goldberg to publish it!

And nothing in there looks good on the White House.
 

Rhinox

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It is indeed a tragedy of errors that just keeps spiraling downward.
not only are we highlighting the sheer incompetence of these political appointees, but we're witnessing them perjure themselves in real time, all the while demonstrating the massive hypocrisy of the party as a whole.

I do honestly believe that we will not actually have free elections after this. The GOP is shooting itself in the foot on a daily. They know they won't retain any power unless they put in the fix.
 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.
Citizen
It is indeed a tragedy of errors that just keeps spiraling downward.
not only are we highlighting the sheer incompetence of these political appointees, but we're witnessing them perjure themselves in real time, all the while demonstrating the massive hypocrisy of the party as a whole.

I do honestly believe that we will not actually have free elections after this. The GOP is shooting itself in the foot on a daily. They know they won't retain any power unless they put in the fix.
 

wonko the sane?

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Actually, it was to cancel the resulting special election and prevent flipping the house. Apparently republicans are already freaking out over the midterms.
 

Rhinox

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Yeah, there are no safe districts at this point. Any nomination that comes from Congress or the House of Reps is going to probably be pulled at this point. Trump can't afford to lose any seats. He knows what is coming for him.
 

Fullstrength Motleypuss

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Yeah, there are no safe districts at this point. Any nomination that comes from Congress or the House of Reps is going to probably be pulled at this point. Trump can't afford to lose any seats. He knows what is coming for him.
Coronation?
 


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