On Tuesday, former White House adviser Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC’s “Deadline” and spouted fake news about the Trump administration being a “national security” threat.
She claimed that Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg being added to the Signal group chat in which Trump administration officials were allegedly discussing military strikes was “the biggest national security debacle that any professional can remember.”
Rice declared, “It’s stunning. It’s likely the biggest national security debacle that any professional can remember. Let me explain a bit why this is so crazy. First of all national security advisors convene what is called the national security principals committee meeting. This is the cabinet level group that makes the most important decisions and recommendations to the president on national security. It’s all those people that are on that chat, the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA Director and others by the way. It’s bizarre.”
She continued, “This absolutely needs to be thoroughly investigated.”
Rice added, “This is pure laziness, malpractice, recklessness, and probably also a desire to hide from The Presidential Records Act the legal responsibility to keep written communications that happen and between government officials and particularly national security officials for the public record. So there’s many, many ways in which was so crazy.”
However, this is false according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who explained on Monday, “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.”
This came after Goldberg claimed he was added to the group chat on March 13, and falsely reported that the morning of the strikes against Houthis on March 15, Hegseth had “texted [him] the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.”
Pete Hegseth: "So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes."
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Goldberg said that Hegseth posted in the group chat “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”
Hegseth told reporters, “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides, hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.”
“This is the guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does,” he added.