Signal leak fallout keeps spreading as Trumpworld tries to shrug it off
A leak of sensitive war-planning chatter on Signal kept dominating the day as senior Trump officials were pressed to explain why top national-security business was being conducted in an app that auto-deletes messages. The public defense was basically a shrug, but the political damage was already visible: senators were livid, security experts were alarmed, and the administration’s story kept shifting from alarm to denial to dismissal. Even Trump’s own allies could not quite make the embarrassment sound like a non-event.
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Signal leak fallout keeps spreading as Trumpworld tries to shrug it off
A leak of sensitive war-planning chatter on Signal kept dominating the day as senior Trump officials were pressed to explain why top national-security business was being conducted in an app that auto-deletes messages. The public defense was basically a shrug, but the political damage was already visible: senators were livid, security experts were alarmed, and the administration’s story kept shifting from alarm to denial to dismissal. Even Trump’s own allies could not quite make the embarrassmen…
A leak of sensitive war-planning chatter on Signal kept dominating the day as senior Trump officials were pressed to explain why top national-security business was being conducted in an app that auto-deletes messages. The public defense was basically a shrug, but the political damage was already visible: senators were livid, security experts were alarmed, and the administration’s story kept shifting from alarm to de…
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