A journalist was added to a group that discussed and planned a US attack on Yemen. This group was created by people who occupy sensitive positions in US National Security and included Trump’s deputy JD Vance. And this discussion was made in an app where it should not have occurred. And whose guilt is it? For the media affected by Trump, the journalist’s fault is
Trump 2.0’s biggest scandal is no scandal in the media wizard
by Brian StelterCNN
The revelation that President Trump’s advisers endangered national security when talking about a military attack in a signal conversation that included a journalist is embarrassing to all involved – and that is why it is a great test to the power of Media Maga (Make America Great Again) to deny, reject and divert.
The president’s favorite media are mostly minimizing the story and ridicule the reporter who was invited to the group’s group – Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic. At X, Elon Musk and his acolytes are making jokes about the scandal. And some pro-Trump media are trying to ignore it completely.
All of this remembers Trump’s first term, when real news was rejected times without account by right -wing opinion vehicles. And, as we learned at that time, the consumption of media by the president has a huge impact on the political and personal decisions he makes.
So far, the advice that is receiving from your Fox News friends is to face the current storm.
Many Pro-Trump media figures are following tips from the Secretary of State for Defense, Pete Hegseth, who seemed to have returned to his former Fox host when he criticized Goldberg as an “alleged discredited journalist who has made rumors.”
Hegseth will have used the word “Hoax” strategically, since viscerally pleases Trump. The president has a long history of trying to disarm harmful stories claiming that they are “scams,” regardless of reality. The word has become a sign for Trump fans to ignore the stories that cause suffering.
Some people on the right realized the rhetorical trick. “For God’s sake,” he wrote in the X Brit Hume, Fox’s main political analyst, “the administration has already confirmed the authenticity” of what happened.
Hegseth’s insistence on which “no one was sending messages with war plans” was also refuted by Goldberg, who told Kaitlan Collins from CNN: “It’s a lie. He was sending messages with war plans. He was sending messages with attack plans.”
Goldberg acted patriotically (and legally protected) by choosing not to publish these specific texts. But Hegseth’s denial was a board of salvation for the magician commentators – who now say there is a dispute over the facts.
On Monday night, at Fox News, the dominant pro-Trump network in the United States, Sean Hannity spoke about the “media hysteria.” Laura Ingraham scored the story by saying that “the left nets” worried about her. Jesse Watters’ program said that “we have all sent messages to the wrong person.”
The Watters segment led Issac Saul, which directs Tangle News, saying that “it is very difficult to do any kind of political analysis without having to constantly deal with the fact that our two political tribes live in completely different information ecosystems.”
On Tuesday morning, the morning program “Fox & Friends” began with a counter-programming: a segment on deportations.
When the program reported the escape of information about the war plans at the end of the hour, Steve Doocy took a hard position, saying that “what was revealed was confidential and ultra -secret.” The guest host Kayleigh Mcenany said it was “an obvious mistake,” but then wondered the description of the events made by Goldberg, saying that “he is not a credible reporter.” Then Lawrence Jones said that “literally my only question” is how Goldberg joined the message chain.
In short, it was a very kind treatment of a blatant safety failure.
Breitbart and other media Maga also attacked the messenger and suggested that media reports are no longer important.
This is the same approach as White House employees and Trump’s external counselors are adopting. This Tuesday morning, Axios quoted an anonymous counselor of Trump who said “we don’t care what the media say” and predicted that “this will pass.”
However, Goldberg’s story remains. In a questions and answers session with a colleague, Goldberg said he is not concerned with possible retaliation of the Trump administration.
“Unfortunately, in our current society – we see this in journalism, law firms and other industries – there is too many preventive obedience for my taste,” said Goldberg. “All we can do is go to do our job.”
