If you were added to a group chat where highly confidential national security information would be shared and discussed, would you check to see who else was in the chat?
If you answered yes, you’re not Trump administration material.
The seemingly obvious question was a focal point in Tuesday’s edition of “Morning Joe,” with hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough asking the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, to try to wrap his head around how he was accidentally added to a group chat discussing war strikes ― and nobody else noticed.
“I’m seeing the term ‘leaked chat.’ This is not a leaked chat,” Brzezinski marveled. “Somebody, by mistake, included Jeffrey on a group chat. It was not leaked to the press. The press was included.”
Goldberg said he was represented by his initials “J.G.” in the chat. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has the same initials, potentially offering a window into the mix-up.
Scarborough didn’t buy it.
“I don’t go into large group chains without looking at every one of the numbers and saying, ‘OK, who am I talking to here?’ And that’s for cable TV,” he said incredulously. “These people are blindly going onto a group chat on Signal, talking about where our troops are going.”
“So the question is, why wouldn’t somebody … in that group ask: ‘Who is J.G.?’” he continued.
Unclear!
The segment then cut to a damning montage of high-level Trump officials who were in the chat slamming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for using a private email server.
In 2015, during Donald Trump’s first run for president, the candidate liked to boast that he hires only “the best people.” Based on this latest mishap (and previous examples), it’s unclear whether that’s the case.
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