SignalGate: “This Chat’s Kinda Dead”
DOD IG has released the unclassified version of the report confirming what was clear months ago: Whiskey Pete Hegseth has no business leading DOD.
He was wildly uncooperative with the investigation, refusing to be interviewed, refusing to let DOD inspect his phone, refusing to turn over other threads.
But Whiskey Pete may not look quite as stupid as JD Vance.
You see, Whiskey Pete turned over the Signal chat that was left on his phone after all the autodeleting these scofflaws had been doing. Most of the thread was gone. But there was a single text that post-dated Jeffrey Goldberg’s departure from the list, something the Deputy General Counsel used to suggest the Atlantic thread might not be reliable (a claim DOD IG refused to put in the body of the report because, some people still refuse bullshit).
After Jeff Goldberg left the group, JD Vance said, “This chat’s kind of dead. Anything going on?”
One after another participant on the thread changed their ID, perhaps in hopes … I don’t know what they fuck they were thinking.
These are dumb people.
No one more so, though, than JD.
He comes across as the bored male teenager invited to these chats to keep the only girl who likes him happy.
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Their own transcript shows him leaving the chat which tends to support that he was there.
heh.
After Vance’s post, the rest of the idiots scattered to the winds—probably thinking to themselves, “JD, you idiot…”
There’s a joke that for every group chat, there’s a second one that excludes the least liked person(s). I think we all know where JD Vance stands in his (supposed) friend group. Self awareness has never been the MAGA strong suit.
Wonder if there was a John Dean in the group. Dean didn’t keep notes on Watergate because he was stupid but because he was smart. Everyone might get a pardon in three years but Congress will come calling and first one to turn over documents then get a pass on perjury traps.