Trump official chat shakes Washington

JD Vance, the writer who turned into a vice president, believed that air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen were “a mistake.” Beit Higseth, the Fox News host, who turned into the Minister of Defense and spent the work. “I think we should go,” he said.

Both men expressed their contempt for America’s allies in Europe just as the Donald Trump administration expects in public places. “I just hate to save Europe again,” Vans said.

Such exchanges between senior cabinet officials and national security officials usually reveal a White House room or other highly safe communication lines.

But this is among more than ten senior officials before the US military operation for this month against the Iranian militia group on a Reference chat He shared with Jeffrey Goldberg, great editor -in -chief of Atlantic.

Listing the electronic deliberations that were published on Monday, which were confirmed by the authentic White House, Washington rocked Trump within minutes.

The sign chat – called the “Houthi PC Small Group” – represented one of the most flagrant national security violations in the last US history, although it is unclear whether federal law enforcement agencies, including the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office, which Trump tried to undergo under his thumb.

The Ministry of Justice refused to comment on the breach. The FBI referred any questions to the Pentagon, which did not answer a request for comment.

He also highlighted the extent that Vans puts in his internal position Foreign policy Discussions as the harshest isolation, to the point of conflict with the first major military strike for Trump.

It has permanently showed the depth of concerns about Europe in the minds of Trump’s senior officials at a time when they wonder about the value of NATO and the move to launch a commercial war.

One of the main reservations of officials about hitting the Houthis was that it would allow European economies to pressure the American authority to remove the Red Sea shipping corridors. “I share you completely hate in the European download, it’s compassionate,” Higseth He said in response to Vans.

Trump’s only comment on the stock exchange was to say that he did not know “anything” about breach, and there was no indication that anyone would be held accountable.

But the Democrats quickly called for resignation, and the name of Higseth, as well as Mike Waltz, the national security adviser who accidentally called for the chat to chat, or Tolsi Gabbard, director of the National Intelligence that announced this month only that “the unauthorized issue of video information is a violation of the law and will be processed on this month.”

Don Bayer, a member of the Democratic Congress of Virginia, wrote:

Some legal experts agreed that discussing and detecting sensitive military plans was illegal.

“If this is the national defense information that is intentionally transmitted via an unsafe mediator, this may be a violation of” the espionage law of 1917, said Debora Cortis, a partner in Arnold and Porter.

She added: “The signal is a special encoding from one side to the tip (correspondence service).” “It is not an accredited means of the United States government to conduct such a conversation.

Michael Ohanklon, director of foreign policy research at the Brookings Foundation, said the episode revealed a “marked magic” among senior officials, “They should have known better.”

“You had most of the best national security team, if not almost all of this, in this communication chain, and none of them had wisdom to close it. At least, they should all go to firewood. If they don’t apologize for this, this talks to the kind of cases and the Persians that scares me.”

Republicans at Capitol Hill tried to reduce the accident, indicating that there was no more than a lesson to learn for the future and that the discussion itself was in good health.

“They will track it and make sure that this does not happen again,” Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters.

He added: “What I saw, I think, the officials at the highest level were doing their work, doing it well, and implementing a plan accurately.”

“It looks like a huge screw,” John Corn, a Senate member of Texas, told a different group of journalists. “It seems that someone dropped the ball.”

For Trump’s critics, the decline in discussing the classified information will not be a surprise, given that the president has ruled on the poor of the sensitive national security documents stored in Mar Lago after his first term in a federal case that was dropped after his victory in 2024.

However, the detection of the chat detection on Monday has sparked a new round of the anger that Trump and his team will find it difficult to clean.

“What this incident reflects is the smuggling and neglect that cannot be conceived when it comes to national security information,” said Emily Berman, a professor at the Houston University Law Center.

She added: “This does not make it likely to be tried by the national security team of the president and the vice president.”