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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Trump officials, texts, leaks, and facepalms....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Trump officials, texts, leaks, and facepalms....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. So today, we're going to talk about the Trump

0:07.3

administration, accidentally including a journalist in their planning sessions, on Signal. Okay,

0:14.9

obviously, there's a lot of issues with what happened. The list is pretty much endless from a

0:20.2

national security perspective.

0:22.3

But we're going to go over what occurred and then touch on some key elements. If you haven't

0:29.1

heard yet, a roster of high-ranking Trump administration officials decided to discuss detailed

0:35.5

plans for an upcoming military action via signal.

0:40.1

This is what counterintelligence professionals would call, in technical language,

0:45.8

a, quote, giant word that starts with an F cluster, word that starts with an F,

0:51.4

that nobody can believe, actually, word that starts with an F, that nobody can believe, actually, word that starts with an F,

0:55.8

happened. The military action in question was the recent strikes in Yemen. But wait, there's more.

1:03.8

They also, for some unexplained word that starts with F reason, added the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

1:10.5

to the group chat, who wrote about

1:12.9

the content of the messages, while summarizing things that shouldn't be shared with the public,

1:18.4

or journalists. I'll put the link down below, but he wrote, quote, I however, knew two hours before

1:26.2

the first bombs exploded, that the attack might be coming.

1:30.0

The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, had texted me the war

1:35.9

plan at 1144 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets,

1:43.4

and timing.

1:45.0

One of the more entertaining lines from the chat that was published occurred when there was

1:50.1

discussion about delaying the strikes against the Houthi targets.

1:54.8

The Secretary of Defense wrote, quote, but we can easily pause, and if we do, I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC.

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