Josh Hawley Shrugs off Major National Security Leak: Democrats Are ‘Griping About Who’s on a Text Message’

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) shrugged off a major national security leak that saw The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally get invited to a top-secret group chat about the Trump administration’s war plans.

Asked on Monday by Fox News host Laura Ingraham for his response to the dangerous blunder, Hawley said:

I thought what the secretary of defense just said, Laura, was an outstanding statement and, listen, we don’t know how much of this is accurate or not, but it looks like even if everything The Atlantic reported is true, it’s the president’s advisers discussing among themselves options they might recommend to the president, and nobody can deny the success of what the president is doing here, which is what Pete Hegseth just underscored.

And this is what the leftist media is reduced to. They can’t argue with the policies, which the American people support, they can’t argue with this new demonstration of American strength that is keeping Americans safe at home and abroad, so now we’re griping about who’s on a text message and who’s not. I mean, come on.

Ingraham replied, “The left all afternoon was going crazy about, ‘This is another example of compromising national security with classified information,’ of course, forgetting Joe Biden’s holding documents near his Corvette and being given special treatment in how he could go recover those. So none of that is mentioned.”

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta had a different analysis of the situation on Monday, warning that the “very serious mistake” could “undermine” the government’s “war plans, but also jeopardize lives.”

In his article on the Trump administration’s blunder, Goldberg reported that the information he was accidentally sent “could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel” if obtained by an adversary, and included “operational details on forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”

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