Signalgate And The Truth Bus

One way to know that the press is getting close to the truth is when the President takes to social media. Yes, he’s done it again, and every word hints at an old man’s attempt to deflect from what is actually going on. If this White House had a living brain cell, it would take away the President’s phone and not let him have it back.

A mistake was made when Barak Obama was allowed to have a Blackberry back in the day. An intelligent government knows that everything coming from the White House needs to run through the sanitation process of the Communications Department. That’s why they’re present. Their job is to make sure nothing is said that might inadvertently cause a panic or, worse, admit to doing something wrong.

Not in this White House, though. We’re pretty sure the President takes his damn phone to bed with him just in case he has some random thought in the middle of the night that he needs the world to know about. Maybe the phone helps him sleep. If so, is there an eternal sleep mode on the damn thing?

The latest gaff comes in a multi-post complaint about NBC airing an interview with The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. During the interview, Goldberg had some ‘interesting’ things to say about that Signal chat he was in.

Fox example, in response to Mike Waltz’s claim that his [Goldberg’s] number got “sucked in” because he had “somebody else’s contact,” Goldberg said, “You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone. He’s telling everyone that he’s never met me or spoken to me. That’s just simply not true.”

“I understand why he’s doing it. But you know, this has become a somewhat farcical situation. There’s no subterfuge here. My number was in his phone. He mistakenly added me to the group chat. There we go.”

See? The truth isn’t that difficult, is it? Had Waltz made that admission a week ago, chances are pretty good that we wouldn’t still be talking about it. But no, ‘deny, deny, deny’ is this administration’s motto and as a result, here we are a week later still discussing something that a) never should have happened, and b) could have been fixed on day one if the parties involved just told the damn truth.

“American pilots were about to fly into possibly a deadly situation, and the Secretary of Defense is telling everyone on the group chat, which by the way included me, that these pilots were about to go into harm’s way,” Goldberg continued. “Letting that information out on a commercial messaging app… it seems odd. So I was aghast.”

We noticed that the President didn’t directly contradict anything Goldberg said during the interview. Instead, he attacked NBC and it’s parent, Comcast, for having lousy leadership. We’re not going to repost what the President said because it’s not worthy of any space in anyone’s brain. Lousy leadership is what we have in this White House, and this excursion into yet another random wandering by an old man suffering from dementia just adds fuel to the fire.

There’s a truth bus about to his this administration, and it’s not going to be pretty when it does.

Here’s part of last night’s interview: