Summary

White House insiders blame National Security Adviser Mike Waltz for a group chat error that exposed military strike discussions to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

Waltz mistakenly added Goldberg to a Signal chat about potential strikes in Yemen, involving key officials like Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and JD Vance.

Trump has defended Waltz but is reportedly weighing his options.

Some aides urge resignation to avoid forcing Trump to make a decision. Critics call Waltz reckless, but House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes his resignation.

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    The crimes each member may have committed exposes them to multi-decade prison sentences.

    They’re urging someone to resign? RESIGN?

    Let’s see the court cases. Each one of those hypocrites.

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      two words: presidential pardon.

      No one will spend the time, money and effort to prosecute these people when they can just wave the whole thing away with a signature.

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          But then I don’t really think I understand US politics. To me it makes no sense why there isn’t an impeachment charge against him every day. He’s providing enough ammo. If he’s going to flood the zone, flood it right back.

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            What’s hard to understand? Republicans control the House, and Republicans are complicit. Any impeachment charge wouldn’t make it out of committee, and any charge on the floor would be quickly voted down.

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              Then make them vote it down? What is so hard to understand about this? Every impeachment charge is time spent on the floor that forces them to delay voting on other damaging policies. If he’s going to continue flooding the zeitgeist with damaging policies and immoral action, then force his colleagues and constituents to sit down and listen to it in detail. Eventually the end goal doesn’t become worth the sacrifice to get there. There’s a reason no one ever sits through a time share seminar even if its for a free 3 day weekend getaway.

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                Voting on what? Everything is being done through executive actions. This Congress has rendered itself irrelevant. The only thing Congress is actually doing is voting on nominees, and I think Democrats should vote against those, but they’re too busy unanimously voting in favor of them.

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            Me neither. I would have thought this was exactly the kind of situation impeachment was meant to stop. I am thoroughly confused.

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        That’s not the reason to choose not to prosecute. You indict them, prosecute them, sentence them, and then if he wants to pardon them, he is choosing personal loyalty to him over acting against the American people and our national security. Charge them, and use the predictable sociopathic response to beat them incessantly for years.

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      The people that want these unqualified dipshits in these roles are the same types of people that fell for the fucking lie that Hillary “acid washed” her emails.

      BTW, next time you hear some asshat suffering from TDS (the actual kind, not the stupid thing they talk about and that they lifted from Clinton days anyway since they are lazy and unimaginative and always projecting - these people spent their time ever since the early 90s getting the vapors over lots of imagined nonsense related to the Clintons and so they should know about derangement) brain repeating that dumbfuck lie - ask them what they mean by “acid washing” an email or a server. Just keep asking what they mean by that.

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        Exactly.
        Orange ShitGibbon had boxes and boxes of top secret stuff in his unlocked toilet right next to a fax machine yet nothing happened.
        Not only did nothing happen to him, he also got voted back in again. Ffs.