Trump on DoD Sending Secret War Plans to Journalist: ‘It’s Just Something That Can Happen’

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Trump weighed in on one of the worst scandals of his second term: his Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, having accidentally shared war plans with the top editor at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, via a rogue invite to a group Signal chat. Trump spoke about the incident with about the same tone you’d talk about getting a parking ticket: “It’s just something that can happen,” he said, referring to the Secretary of Defense sending secret war plans to a journalist without knowing it. “It can happen. You can even prepare for it, it can happen,” he said again. Later, Trump extrapolated a little more on his understanding of what had taken place: “Sometimes people are hooked in and you don’t know they’re hooked in,” he said, before venturing into a more abstract commentary about the nature of modernity: “It’s not a perfect technology, there is no perfect technology,” he said. “We always want to use the best technology. This was the best technolog ... Read full article.