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The fact that the far left’s propaganda arm, otherwise known as the establishment media, is making so much of the Signal chat affair is an indication of how little it has to work with in the new Trump administration. Back at this point in Trump’s first administration, the Russian Collusion hoax was in full swing, and the Ukraine phone call impeachment, the bogus Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and all-out lawfare against Trump were in the offing.
By comparison, the Signal business is thin gruel indeed, but to try to make the most of it that can be made, a lawsuit has been filed, and lo and behold, Trump-hating Judge James Boasberg, the same corrupt leftist ideologue who has been doing all he can to stop Trump from deporting criminal migrants, has been assigned the case.
Fox News reported Wednesday that “the government watchdog group American Oversight filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others violated federal records laws by discussing Houthi attack plans in a Signal groupchat. The contest has now been randomly assigned to Boasberg, who serves on the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C.” Yeah, “randomly,” and I’ve got a very fine bridge to sell you over in Brooklyn.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) was right on the money when he referred to Boasberg and his ilk as “rogue judges.” Hawley declared: “These judges have proven they care more about unlawfully knee-capping President Trump’s agenda than accurately applying the facts to the law in each individual case. Congress can change that.”
Yes. And this mountain out of molehill over the Signal chat is yet another effort to kneecap Trump and his agenda. Contrary to widely reported claims, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pointed out Wednesday that “The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’ This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
Also, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, according to Fox News, “emphasized during a Wednesday House Intelligence Committee hearing that no classified information was shared in the chat.” Gabbard said: “It was a mistake that a reporter was inadvertently added to a signal chat with high-level national security principles, having a policy discussion about imminent strikes against the Houthis and the effects of the strike. The national security advisor has taken full responsibility for this, and the National Security Council is conducting an in-depth review, along with tech technical experts working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat.”
That should be that, but not when the left wants to get Trump and thinks it has finally found a way to do it. There is a Road-Runner-and-Wile-E.-Coyote feel air of futility about this whole circus, and it obscures the only thing about this whole matter that even remotely approaches being an actual scandal.
National security advisor Michael Waltz said of The Atlantic’s far-left scandalmonger Jeffrey Goldberg, the “journalist” who was somehow added to the Signal chat: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but of all the people out there, somehow this guy – who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States – and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”
That’s the real question: is there another deep state operative in Waltz’s agency who is trying to emulate Miles Taylor? Taylor was the young Trump administration official who shot to a kind of fame in September 2018, when he wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times that was one of the first open acknowledgments that there was a coterie of federal bureaucrats that is determined to thwart Trump’s agenda by any means possible: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration: I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Interestingly, that article now seems to have been taken down from the Times website. But when it came out, it made the then-anonymous Taylor a hero on the left. He followed it up in November 2019 with another ostentatiously anonymous writing, this time a book called A Warning, one of the first publications in what became a cottage industry of Trump-is-stupid-and-evil books. A Warning was credited to “A Senior Trump Administration Official,” which was actually a false claim, as Taylor was a minor drone at best. But the “senior official” tag gave rise to a great deal of speculation as to who the author really was: John Kelly? John Bolton? Mike Pence? The disappointment was palpable when Anonymous turned out not to be a senior Trump administration official at all, but just little Miles, a thirtysomething former chief of staff to the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. That’s right: a nonentity.
Is there now another anonymous deep stater trying to throw sand in the gears of the second Trump administration? That’s what really needs to be investigated. Will it be?
