It pains me that things like this still need to be said, but conservatives: please stop helping your political enemies.
The so-called Signal scandal is the perfect example of a nothing-burger that the right has inadvertently helped Democrats raise to the level of a problem.
Thanks to conservatives treating the leftwing narrative seriously, the internet is covered in headlines like this, from whoever took over the Drudge Report:
Guys. Get real.
No one is “accidentally” added to a Signal conversation. Further, Jeffrey Goldberg is not “accidentally” added to anything that has to do with Trump.
Recall – Goldberg is the genius behind “suckers and losers” and “Russian bounties.”
If he was even added at all – and based on the aforementioned stories, there’s good reason to doubt the entirety of the story, administration comments notwithstanding – it was done for a reason.
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Many speculate that, knowing Goldberg would write about what was said, the Trump administration was sending a message to Europe. That message being: Time is running out.
There were obviously no “war plans” being bandied about on a text chain. That’s not what war plans look like!
And then Goldberg, of course, thanks to his journalistic integrity, voluntarily left the chat so as to ‘not harm national security.’
Come on, man.
That story is as believable as the most pro-veteran President in generations going to Arlington National Cemetery and telling a bunch of military folks that the dead are “suckers and losers.”
Of course, Democrats are already calling for SecDef Hegseth and NSA Mike Waltz to be fired.
And that’s another thing: as we all know, Trump fires people like it’s a bodily function. (Finally got a Seinfeld reference in here!) Yet here, in the supposedly earth-shattering security foul-up, Trump happily backed Waltz, who has taken the blame for the thing. What does that tell you?
Here’s the deal: I have no idea what the actual intent was. I’m certain we will eventually find out.
But most importantly, I’m certain that the immediate, ready-made narrative crafted by the usual suspects is, prima facie, patently absurd.
You should be certain of that, too.
