Signalgate Leaked War Plans, Expose Trump Admin Hypocrisy

When your regime is part mafia spoof, part constitutional crisis, things stop being funny, real fast.

Do you use Signal? Meet Signalgate. Is Signal a Russian app? Err, no to that one.

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Did you guys break the law by posting classified information on a public utility—on a public app, Signal?

No, no, there was no classified information there.

Great. Well, please share the information from that conversation with us here now.

Oh no, I can't do that.

Right. Oh God. Brutal cuts—in their own words—on security leaks. As I said: the gang that can't shoot straight. Fox News's Peter Doocy weighs in. We'll tell you about that in the second hour of our program.

They are actively destroying Social Security as we speak. In fact, the acting director of Social Security—by the way, Leland Dudak—this is a guy who got his job because he was a low-level grunt inside the Social Security Administration. He thought he had found some examples of fraud, and he gave that information to Elon Musk's guys and said, "Here's where you should look."

Turns out his information was BS, but they said, "Oh! A spy on the inside—make him the director."

Well, he says it's only going to be two weeks before they finish destroying the Social Security Administration. I'll tell you about that in the second hour of the program.

Also, the head of the Postal Service has resigned. Yes—yesterday. Louis DeJoy. Why? Apparently because they're going to follow through with their plans for privatization.

And Susan Collins is about as good as Republicans get these days. What does that mean? The unbearable lightness of being concerned—in the third hour of our program.

What the toppling of the U.S. Institute for Peace means for our future. And as the Carolinas burn, Kristi Noem announces the end of FEMA. Wasn't that special? I mean, they're literally taking apart our government.

The top story, of course, today all across the world—I suppose—is this: the gang that couldn’t shoot straight.

You know, there was this movie in 1971 starring Robert De Niro called The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It was about this mafia family in New Jersey that was run by an absolute incompetent buffoon—played by De Niro—and his underlings. He surrounded himself with incompetent underlings because they would suck up to him. They just couldn’t get anything right. They screwed up everything.

I tell this story about—years ago I did some consulting work for one of those three-letter agencies that keep our nation safe. My first day at work, I showed up at the headquarters—or one of the secondary buildings—and I went through the face scan, handprint, passport check, all that.

As I'm going through the magnetometer and running my briefcase through the X-ray machine, on the other side, the Marine has his rifle pointed at me. The guy with the X-ray machine says, “There’s a transmitter inside your briefcase. Is that authorized?”

It was the wireless microphone I’d used the day before to give a speech in a hotel ballroom. I’d completely forgotten it was in my briefcase.

I was like, “I’m sorry.”

He said, “Are you really that stupid that you’d bring a transmitter into the offices of the—excuse me—the bleeping...”

Oh my God, that was terrible. My apologies.

You bleeped me—thank you, Sean. But that’s literally what he said. He was really furious.

I was like, “Yeah, I really am that stupid.”

[kurboat]

The problem is we have a clown show running this country now. Anyone with common sense can see this whole administration is a joke! And a very bad joke.

[chris-in-oceania]

As you pointed out Thom, it's the bit that people are not talking about that is chilling!

[kawmn]

Tom! You cussed! I’m so proud of you! 😉

[Mebbe]

Always good to listen to you. Some sense in a ‘ sea of troubles’

[RobinMelchior]

Yes, they were trying to avoid FOIA illegally!

[starShadowe]

Susan collins hasnt held a town hall open to the public in over 25 YEARS. Thats longer than ive been alive

[stevedrenth]

Don’t get lost in the security breach topic, there is much more going on here.

[AC-xisb]

Hypocrites. 😢
They should be judged by their own words.

[Jeannie-du]

Regarding no due process, "State Secrets" is used as a reason to avoid responding to a Judge's questions.

[bcroger]

This guy deserves more subscribers.

TYT (The Young Trumps) has over 6 million subscribers

[brdrcli]

All is good Tom. You just proved you're human and not A I generated. 🏆🎉🥂💙

[JugglinJellyTake]

Have thinktanks ever been sued for the impacts of their policies on the public purse? Banks are required to perform stress tests. Who stress tests policies? Who is accountable? If it costs to renationalise the USPS then it is only right those thinktanks pay up.

[JugglinJellyTake]

How much more communication is off the record through private chats? How much more are they keeping off government records? There are a lot of brutal policies coming out with known impacts on people's wellbeing, women's health and freedoms. There are a lot of laws wilfully being broken wilfully.

[ronbotello]

They're twisting the truth into a pretzel!

[pamelaclark]

They should go to jail for not sharing

[Salvador-tu]

Has anyone noticed that "Signal" is also the same name of a Wermacht war time propaganda magazine?

[dannyinguadala]

This is 💯 what I expected from a second Trump admin

[alnilam]

So much for Intelligence; Central or National, neither seem to have any! {\}

[vulcanfeline]

don't apologize for swearing. especially when you're quoting someone. idk about anyone else but i'm really sick of this puritanical double / triple standard about who can swear

[MrGrantSloan]

Best part America, you let them take you apart.