Was Hegseth drunk when he leaked classified info?

Another conspiracy theory:

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was the former Justice Department prosecutor (who resigned the day Trump was inaugurated) murdered? Was this a republican hit job?

I love how trump responded.
“I don’t know anything about it.”
Maybe you should step up and find out about it instead of worrying about what your picture looks like at the Colorado capital.
Also, this shows how incompetent the highest level in our government treats top secret information. They TEXT it! SMH

Ask them about Hillary’s emails now….

@Blackberry
They put the white house onto musk’s starlink network
https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-starlink-wifi/
because who needs network security.
let’s just use the unsecured satellite internet provided by the south african oligarch who has direct connections to both putin and xi jinping.

The less-secure US communications are about doing bad shit, the better.

Or is it possible that he did it on purpose?

I just heard about this story.

My first thought was the leak might be on purpose.

My next thought was why are journalists revealing details of the text?! I think it’s good the public knows it happened, and I would guess the reporter should tell the White House he is mistakenly in the text group even if he doesn’t tell the public, is there a law about that?

The journalist could have stayed quiet and maybe learned all sorts of stuff.

Was Hegseth drunk? Wouldn’t surprise me.

@JLeslie The journalist only revealed enough details to demonstrate h received the text, but did not disclose any military secrets (unlike Hegseth, Rubio, et al).

A couple of you all have wondered if it could have been on purpose. I wondered that myself, but can’t come up with a reason to do so. Does anyone have a guess as to if it was on purpose, then why?

@JLeslie Could the reporter get in trouble for “staying quiet” and remaining in a groupchat where “classified” info is being shared? I bet they’d put the blame on the reporter somehow.

Edit: I see you asked if there is a law about that

@zenvelo The public knows it was about an upcoming military strike on Yemen. That seems detailed enough to me.

@chyna I wondered that too. All I can think is typical Trump style to scare a country to stop because we make a threat of attack, but it doesn’t quite fit here. When Trump denied knowing about it I actually believed him, but he very well could be lying.

Hegseth is now insulting the reporter. It’s like, ummmmm.

They made a big deal about Hillary being on a non-government email server, but I guess what’s not ok for her is ok for Hegseth.

The level of supreme incompetence in this is just breathtaking.

@chyna I’m sure the convicted sexual abuser didn’t know anything about it. He’s not smart enough to be included in these conversations. And since the people involved in this conversations are idiots, that’s saying a lot.

He was not the one who accidentally issued the invite to the journalist.

@YARNLADY Correct, but he was the one who put the classified information on the group chat (on the non-governmental site).

When we had real presidents they would say “the buck stops here” Now they say “I don’t know anything about it”.
Was he playing golf or something at the time? Worst president ever.

May the Fallout be with us. What do you expect from a MSNBC Reporter?

@Forever_Free It was a reporter with the Atlantic according to the NY Times.

Overall, Senate Republicans and Trump are responsible if anything bad happens under Hegseth. They knew that this was not the man for the job and they continued to hire people with drug problems and drinking problems. People with questionable morals and allegiances, head up agencies that are responsible for millions of Americans’ lives and safety.

I’m not saying Hegseth isn’t responsible as well, but they knew he wasn’t the man for the job, yet they hired him.
This scares me as well because I have a son in the military overseas right now, and God only knows why kind of peril this man can put him in.

@Pandora Yes, I read the full Atlantic article yesterday. I was referencing Mr Hegseth’s background.

Trump has already spoken the words “the buck stops here”. Ultimately Trump is responsible for this.

@Pandora I feel your concern for your son in harms way.

This is an example of what happens when you put a boy in a man’s job.

This is what happens when your primary hiring criterium is ideological, personal, and party loyalty.

What I heard on the news was that Trump said, “I don’t know anything about this.” Very different from “The buck stops here.”

And Hegseth was at Fox.

@YARNLADY They also shouldn’t be using an unclassified messaging app. None of them should be using it.

@janbb I didn’t understand your comment “Hegseth was at Fox” and then I saw it was in response to @Forever_Free‘s saying he was an MSNBC reporter.

^^ Yes, That was why I wrote it.

@janbb I got it after I went back through the thread to see.

Maybe he should be asked to say the alphabet backwards :)

Its a shame the Trump administration doesn’t t have access to state of the art military encrtpyted communications instead of relying on apps from the app store.

I can imagine these boys (because mentally they’re obviously boys) saying “just download the Signal app. Nobody can trace it. It disappears after a few days.” Ha ha ha ha boy mentality.

From Heather Cox Richardson:

“When asked about the breach, Trump responded: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine. But I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?” There is nothing that the administration could say to make the situation better, but this made it worse. As national security specialist Tom Nichols noted: “If the President is telling the truth and no one’s briefed him about this yet, that’s another story in itself. In any other administration, [the chief of staff] would have been in the Oval [Office] within nanoseconds of learning about something like this.””

@janbb How many times are they going to use the bullying tactic? “I’m not a fan and the magazine is going out of business.” What does that have to do with anything?