The POTUS was not amused — by a fly-on-the-wall account he was mighty mad — secret war plans had been accidentally leaked to “a sleaze bag” journalist from a “failing magazine,” hours before a military strike.
His top sleuth, spook and spymaster had all vouched to Congress that “nothing classified” was shared on a chat, yet the meddlesome media and doddering Democrats were going to town with his — “just one mistake in two months” — so-called Signalgate.
Shaken out of deep slumber, Democrats were baying for the blood of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accusing him of behaving recklessly by revealing the precise timing of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
And the nitpicking New York Times had dismissed his favourite former Fox presenter turned defense chief’s defense that info shared was not “war plans” as a semantic spin — “a distinction without a difference.”
It had even brought “crazy Hillary” — should have “locked her up” when he had the chance — out from the woodwork to dub the whole Signalgate affair “dangerous and dumb!”
Even as Donald Trump finally acknowledged the “mistake” blaming national security adviser Mike Waltz for inadvertently adding the name of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, he still defended Hegseth.
“Mike Waltz, I guess he said, he claimed responsibility,” Trump said. “I would imagine it had nothing to do with anyone else. It was Mike, I guess I don’t know. I always thought it was Mike.”
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Yet the man who loves to fire people at the drop of a hat wasn’t planning on firing Waltz, saying he had “learned a lesson and he’s a good man.”
Going by Politico’s flies on the wall, Trump was mad — and suspicious — that Waltz had, of all the people, a well-known Trump baiter’s number saved in his phone in the first place. After a brutal day of Signal chat headlines, he agreed with Vice President JD Vance and his “Ice Maiden” chief of staff Susie Wiles that Waltz had messed up.
Trump, however, ultimately decided to give Waltz a “mulligan” for one reason — for now: Like he’ll he’d give the liberal media and pearl-clutching Democrats a win. That doesn’t mean he’s safe yet, whisper Politico flies.
Then adding insult to injury, a case involving the Signal group chat went to the same insolent judge who had kept questioning Trump’s deportation of a notorious Venezuelan gang to El Salvador, calling the president’s claims of power “awfully frightening.”
“How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ James Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case,’ something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE,” Trump fumed in a post on Truth Social.
“There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win a case before him,” he wrote calling the Obama-appointed judge, “Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts.”
Branding “our nation’s courts” as “broken, with New York and D.C. being the most preeminent of all in their Corruption and Radicalism,” he demanded “an immediate investigation of this Rigged System, before it is too late!”
While the Don hasn’t been able to tame the judiciary— as yet — lawyers were falling in line with a White House memo directing federal law enforcement officials to seek sanctions against attorneys or law firms that challenge Trump’s actions in court.
But Trump’s retaliation campaign suffered twin blows Friday with two federal judges issuing temporary restraining orders blocking much of his executive orders targeting two major law firms involved in investigating him, including one with ties to former special counsel Robert Mueller.
Mueller, who too previously headed the FBI couldn’t find any evidence linking 2016 Trump campaign with Russia or draw a conclusion he obstructed justice.
Three law firms challenging Trump’s orders against them have won initial victories in court, while two major firms chose to cut deals with the president instead.
Keeping another target in line — former FBI director “Slimeball” James Comey — POTUS signed an order declassifying all FBI files on Crossfire Hurricane, a secret probe that searched fruitlessly for evidence of Trump’s collusion with the Russians to win the White House in 2016.
Trump called the FBI’s probe of his campaign, which continued into his first term in the White House, an example of the weaponization of justice system.
RealClearInvestigations traced Trump’s order to a politically explosive letter sent on behalf of an anonymous FBI whistleblower just eight days before the 2024 election, alleging Comey first began investigating Trump shortly after he announced his first run for president in June 2015.
Shockingly, the letter claimed Comey “inserted” female undercover agents into Trump’s campaign to travel with him and his staff and fish for possible evidence of criminal activity as part of a so-called “honeypot” sting operation.
Amid his hundred other gripes, Trump on a Sunday turned his attention to a “distorted” portrait of him in the Colorado state capitol and demanded its removal on behalf of angry Coloradans.
“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol Building, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” he wrote on Truth Social. “The artist also did President Obama, and he looks wonderful, but the one on me is truly the worst.”
“In any event, I would much prefer not having a picture than having this one, but many people from Colorado have called and written to complain,” he wrote. “In fact, they are actually angry about it!”
Two days after Trump’s rant, the painting was gone. As lawmakers decide how to fill the empty space, they may consider one that is nothing like what artist Sarah A. Boardman’s was — neutral — “thoughtful, non-confrontational, not angry, not happy, not tweeting!”