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Washington D.C. is staging a collective freakout over the news that Trump officials sent incredibly secret war plans on a group chat… to a journalist.

• We’ve all sent a text to the wrong person. Embarrassing, right? But the next time that happens to you, just remind yourself: At least you’re not the Secretary of Defense, and at least you weren’t sending secret war plans to a renowned journalist. That’s literally what Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did earlier this month… And it unlocks a new level of embarrassment that, perhaps, no one but a Trump admin official can properly attain in this Earthly life. Imagine your butt dial just became a national security risk!

• The group chat in question apparently included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and others. The breach seems to have been initiated on March 13 by Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, who added The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group text on the encrypted app Signal called “Houthi PC small group.” “PC” here seems to stand for “principles committee.” (As we know, the Trump admin would never start a chat called “politically correct” anything….)

• Goldberg then witnessed discussions about the political ups and downs of a U.S. military strike on Houthis in Yemen to open up Red Sea shipping lanes and send a (ahem) signal of American toughness. Vance called the move “a mistake” that Americans wouldn’t understand and would primarily benefit Europe. (“I hate bailing Europe out,” Vance whined). Still, Vance ultimately signed off on the attack — which then proceeded exactly as the group chat indicated it would. Seriously, this story has to be read to be believed — check it out here for all the absurd details

• It’s important to note that Goldberg didn’t reveal the national secrets he learned on this chat — other than the fact that it took place at all. The only reason this face-plant didn’t spew classified operational details, weapons information and the names of intelligence officers all over the place is that a reporter is more careful than Trump officials with national security secrets.

It’s hard to know whether to be more agog over the incompetence of this breach… or the hypocrisy.

• National security experts and Democrats were stunned. After all, Signal is an open-source, encrypted messaging app run by a private, non-profit foundation. It is absolutely NOT certified as a home for transmitting classified information. The U.S. government has its own secure systems for that. They weren’t used here. The potential for adversaries to monitor phones and steal the information is real.

• “It’s a giant security violation that should make people lose their jobs or resign,” one former intelligence community lawyer told What a Day. Of course, this is the Trump White House, where accountability is a punch-line. So don’t count on that.

• “Only one word for this: FUBAR,” tweeted Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), an army veteran on the House Armed Services Committee, using the military acronym for (ahem) “Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.” He continued: “If House Republicans won’t hold a hearing on how this happened IMMEDIATELY, I’ll do it my damn self.”

• We know what you’re thinking: …but her emails? Right? Right??? Yes, Trump, Rubio and others forcefully argued that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be “locked up” for sending official correspondence over a private server. Yes, Hegseth himself once argued email-gate would “likely” result in “criminal charges.” Clinton didn’t miss the irony, posting: “You have got to be kidding me.”

“Here they’re just explicitly and blatantly sharing classified information and war plans,” the former intel officer told What A Day. “That is so much worse than what the people were doing in the Clinton case.”

NEWS NEWS NEWS

MAGA’s attacks on the judiciary continue. Today it was GOP House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), who announced his committee would begin impeachment hearings against Judge Boasbeurg next week. Impeachment which requires 67 votes in the Senate and already has GOP skeptics in the House, is going nowhere. But Republicans know how to use their power to generate outrage, Internet traffic, and Fox News segments.

Meanwhile, Judge Boasberg maintained his temporary block on using a wartime law to deport a group of Venezuelans, saying they should be able to challenge the Trump administration’s claim that they belong to a gang. It’s a fresh legal defeat for Trump — and given the rate at which he’s racking up losses in court, it won’t be the last!

The Trump DOJ is piling new accusations on deportation target, pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who remains detained in Louisiana. The government now says Khalil willingly withheld information about past work with the UN agency that aids Palestinians and with the UK government while applying for permanent US residency. Khalil’s lawyers say the new charges are a “red herring” designed to avoid the First Amendment issues of deporting him for his anti-Israel protest activities at Columbia.

Trump made his favorite personal lawyer a federal prosecutor. Alina Habba, a Trump TV attack dog, fixer, and trial lawyer, will now be the top U.S. Attorney in New Jersey. Habba represented Trump in his New York civil fraud trial and in the E. Jean Carroll cases, where together he was ordered to pay more than $500 million. Don’t call her a loser!

Greenland’s Prime Minister Mute B. Egede decried the impending visit of Second Lady Usha Vance and other US officials as “highly aggressive,” in light of Donald Trump’s incessant talk of annexing the territory. The point of the visit is to “demonstrate power” over Greenland, the PM said. Meanwhile, on Sunday, VP JD Vance accused Denmark of “not being a good ally” for refusing to satisfy Trump’s territorial ambitions.

Elon Musk threatened to sue former Dem Congressman Jamaal Bowman for calling Musk “a Nazi” and a “thief” on CNN. But, as is always the case with MAGA intimidation tactics, they can go lower! Attorney General Pam Bondi warned Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to “tread carefully” after Crockett said she supports “Tesla takedown” protests targeting Musk and his business. To be clear: That’s the Attorney General threatening a sitting member of Congress for supporting protests.

Trump’s own net worth and the $TRUMP shitcoin memecoin jumped in value (we use that term very loosely!) after he boosted it on Truth Social over the weekend. “I love $TRUMP–SO COOL!!!” Trump posted, causing the coin to jump 12 percent. As of this writing the cryptocoin is up about 7.5 percent from the time Trump posted Sunday night… netting him millions.

Donald Trump absolutely hates a portrait of him now hanging in the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. Trump demanded the portrait, by artist Sarah Boardman, be taken down. Trump’s vanity seemed to be on overdrive as he complained that Boardman’s portrait of Barack Obama was “wonderful” while her Trump rendition is “purposefully distorted.” Maybe Trump is starting to believe all those MAGA AI images where he’s a muscle-bound Rambo.

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