‘Shockingly Egregious F*ck-Up’: Right-Wing Media Torches Trump Team Over War Plans Groupchat
A number of right-wing media figures have voiced their concern over the Trump administration’s use of a Signal groupchat — and inadvertent adding of The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg — to coordinate a strike on Houthi terrorists in Yemen earlier this month.
Indeed, a lot of them have gone a lot further than that in their indictments of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the other participants in the chat. Especially after Goldberg torpedoed the claim that no classified information was in the chat by publishing its contents on Wednesday morning.
Piers Morgan, for example, characterized the episode as a “shocking egregious f*ck-up” and urged President Donald Trump to “roll some heads.”
“If you give the launch times for attack, the general mission set/including strikes on individuals, and the type of military units involved, it’s clearly classified. Why most importantly? Because the Houthis have air defense units and the F-18s have 1-2 people in them,” argued The Washington Examiner‘s Tom Rogan.
“Baffling. We’ve debated ‘over-classification’ during previous political fights in this general realm. Here (setting aside the somewhat tedious ‘war plans’ parsing) information about the nature & exact timing of military strikes seems necessarily and highly classified, no?” wrote Fox News’ Guy Benson.
“The old ‘attack plans’ are not ‘war plans’ defense,” mused The Dispatch’s Stephen Hayes, marveling at the White House’s effort to use Goldberg’s second story to debunk his first.
The New York Post editorial board warned Trump and his underlings that “you can only play the ‘diminish, deny and delay’ game so many times,” arguing that “The American people need to know Trump is still fighting for them, not lying to them.”
And a whole host of National Review writers have condemned the Trump administration over both the sin and the attempt to explain it away.
Senior writer Noah Rothman urged the administration to “Just the the L and move on.”
“President Trump should demand Pete Hegseth’s resignation. Today,” wrote executive editor Mark Wright on Monday.
Staff writer Jeffrey Blehar called it a “uniquely inexcusable blunder.”
And contributing editor — and Fox News contributor — Andy McCarthy wondered how Trump administration officials could mount their defenses of their actions “with a straight face.”
More on the Trump Admin War Plan Leak:
- The Atlantic Publishes Trump Attack Plans After Administration Denies Group Chat
- Trump Just Handed His Biggest Enemy in Media a Slam Dunk
- But How Did It End Up In Your Phone?’ Laura Ingraham Grills Trump NatSec Advisor Over Leak ‘That’s a Pretty Big Problem’
- Bombshell Text Release Shows Trump Officials Were BSing Senators — Under Oath — Hours Earlier
- JD Vance Criticizes Trump in Leaked War Plans Group Chat: ‘Not Sure the President Is Aware How Inconsistent This Is’
- Trump Officials Stumped At Hearing When Asked If Goldberg Can Post Bombshell Texts Since They Claim No Classified Info
