More Signalgate Fallout: Why Was Trump MIA During Military Planning?
Once you get over the astounding and reckless incompetence of Whiskey Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance and other top members of Trump’s so-called national security team plotting a military strike in Yemen over an unsecure app and with a reporter in the chat, there’s another, possibly worse shocker: Where was the commander-in-chief?
The short answer: he was at his golf club. It’s almost like he’s still there.
Chris Hayes did a good piece asking the important questions Wednesday night.
Hayes opened his commentary with a clip of Trump claiming ignorance about Signalgate. Even if the man who has famously claimed, “I alone can fix it” was lying, a real head of state would have made a show of demanding answers. Not Trump. He revealed his shocking ignorance and even more shocking lack of interest: “I don’t know, I’m not sure, you’ll have to ask the various people involved … I don’t know, I was told it was Mike [Waltz, national security adviser].”
Even worse, the Signals blabbers didn’t seem to know what Trump wanted. Worse even than that, the vice president said he wasn’t sure Trump really knew what he was doing. “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,” Vance wrote.