U.S. officials claim Signal chat contained 'no classified material,' so 'The Atlantic' releases more messages
The Atlantic apparently took them at their word, and on Wednesday morning published further messages sent in the Signal chat. This included a detailed, minute-by-minute operation plan detailing Saturday's bombing of Yemen, sent by Hegseth before the attack took place.
"There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in non-secure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared," wrote Goldberg and fellow Atlantic reporter Shane Harris.
SignalGate is bad. StupidFuckingIdiotGate is worse.
"how mind-bogglingly insane is it that there was a discussion about fucking air strikes and the president wasn’t part of it?
I mean, look at who on the chain: the veep, the defense secretary, the secretary of state, the director of the CIA, the treasury secretary — wait, what? Scott Fucking Bessent was on the group chat? why was he looped in on war plans, but not the President of the United Fucking States? Bessent’s a bean-counter. was he there to make sure everyone submitted their expense reports?"
President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
A half-decade later, it appears President Bystander has returned. Trump has taken a keen interest in playing golf, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, banning paper straws, watching an enormous amount of television and helping steer the Kennedy Center — but on life-or-death issues, he’s offering the public a lot of shrugged shoulders and blank stares.
For a president who’s heavily invested in the idea that his immediate predecessor had no idea what was going on around him, Trump’s apparent cluelessness is a serious problem.
The Delaware ‘Billionaire’s Bill’ That Just Passed Is Bad News for Everyone Who Isn’t a Billionaire
SB 21 was originally drafted by Richards, Layton & Finger (RLF), a law firm that counts Musk as one of its clients. The contentious legislation, which would re-write corporate regulation in the state, has been a deep source of concern by worker and consumer groups, as critics maintain it will free corporate America up to behave badly and suffer less consequences. Now, Bloomberg reports that the bill was passed Tuesday night, thanks to the help of a large, pro-corporate lobbying effort. The outlet writes:
A team of five lobbyists hired by the American Investment Council, which is funded by the likes of Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co., had pressed lawmakers to support the measure. The “billionaires’ bill,” as some detractors called it, eased the standards for insider deals involving controlling shareholders and for rich compensation packages for founders like Musk. An army of professional influencers had been “swarming the statehouse,” as one legislator put it.