A hacker reportedly stole customer data from a company that makes a Signal-like app that former National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was seen using in a Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump. The hack includes direct messages and personal information from TeleMessage apps, 404 Media reported Sunday. TeleMessage is an …
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Secretary of state, acting administrator for USAID, acting lead archivist, acting national security adviser. Marco Rubio, the politician Trump once dubbed “little Marco,” has become the president’s go-to guy for big roles in the administration. But Democrats are casting doubt on whether it is possible for Rubio — or anyone …
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National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — who in March accidentally invited a journalist into an unsecured chat where top Trump officials discussed military attack plans — is leaving his post, and his deputy, Alex Wong, will be following him out the door. Mark Halperin was the first to report the …
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President Trump has fired six National Security Council staffers a day after meeting withfar-right troll and conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. Loomer — a 9/11 conspiracy theorist known for chaining herself to the doors of Twitter after losing her account — met with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, where …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …
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After various senior members of the Trump administration denied sharing “war plans” — classified or otherwise — in a Signal group to which they had inadvertently added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine is now releasing additional details about the chat’s contents previously withheld over national security concerns. The Atlantic …
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Senior Trump administration officials and White House aides had for weeks bragged about how the second Trump era was markedly more disciplined and well-oiled, and less shoot-yourself-in-the-foot shambolic, than the president’s first turn in office. Several of these officials noted to Rolling Stone that this assessment was due in part …
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As Rolling Stone reported Wednesday, some Trump administration officials have been privately gossiping among themselves, comparing the now-infamous national security breach in a Signal group chat to something out of the HBO political satire, Veep. These officials are getting it wrong. This ongoing mini-saga of the second Donald Trump era …
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other high-ranking figures in Donald Trump’s administration recently used an unsecured Signal group chat to discuss plans to bomb Houthi militants in Yemen. The group chat somehow included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of …
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Donald Trump’s incoming administration officials have begun interrogating White House national security staff about their potential loyalty — or disloyalty — to the president-elect, according to a Monday report from the Associated Press. One U.S. official familiar with the questioning said that staff members affiliated with the White House National …
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