SignalGate: Right wing Donald Trump cult media's knee jerk lie response to somehow blame journalist Jeffrey Goldberg?

Trump intelligence officials committed a national security breach❗

Trump’s administration, and Trump himself, attacked Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic magazine and Democrats for demanding accountability for the national security breach. 

Fox News and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber piled on, claiming that the respected journalist Jeffreey Goldberg was lying about what he saw in the text chain. 

Since the administration said nothing in the Signal text chain was classified, Goldberg released the messages the following day. 

Although the information meets the government’s published guidelines for “Top Secret” classification, Tulsi Gabbard, apparently unaware that Goldberg was going to release the text chain, went to Congress on Wednesday and again claimed the texts did not contain any classified information.🤥 (What was she thinking❓)

Will it matter to Trump voters that he and his cult minions endangered national security❓ It is doubtful. Trump’s strongest base of support comes from white voters without college degrees. 

In 2016, Trump won 63% of these voters. In 2020, despite having been impeached, he won 61%. And in 2024, after having been convicted of 34 felonies, he still won 60%. 

One survey prior to the election showed that among registered voters who said they consumed no national political news at all, Trump held a 26-point advantage. 

Likewise, Trump won 91% of the country’s news deserts, defined as counties lacking a professional source of local news, and he won those counties by an average of 54 percentage points.

If what’s past is prologue, then most Trump voters will never read The Atlantic’s reporting or ever know much, if anything, about Trump’s national security lies.

From Rand Nolen, in Houston, Texas

To the Editor:  Every passing day leads me to believe we as a nation are in danger. At first I thought it was just our democracy. Now I believe our very lives are at risk. 

When those at the upper echelons of our national security agencies use Signal to discuss war plans — and invite the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic without realizing it — that tells us everything we need to know. We are being led by amateurs who have the discretion and acumen of (perhaps) high school freshmen. The difference is, instead of engaging in high school gossip, they are discussing national security issues that could compromise the lives of each and every one of us.

From Thomas Bickham, in Bellaire (Harris County) Texas