The Daily Blast: Trump Privately Seethes at Text Fiasco as Hegseth’s Dumb Spin Implodes

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s day three of the scandal in which President Trump’s top advisers accidentally allowed a journalist for The Atlantic onto a highly sensitive discussion of a military operation. The latest: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth offered an incredibly weak defense of this travesty. Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg revealed most of the text chain, which contained lots of operational detail. And Trump is reportedly frustrated over this story, and his top allies are deeply exasperated by his team’s handling of it. We talked to Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, author of a new piece on the scandal’s undercurrents, about the deeper meaning of all these developments: What they say about the failures of right wing populist and MAGA governance, and about the deeper schisms inside MAGA ideology. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.2	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
1:15.1	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:24.9	We're now in day three of the falloff from the shocking news that President Trump's top advisors accidentally admitted a journalist for the Atlantic onto a highly sensitive discussion of an upcoming military operation.
1:37.0	But today we're going to try to dig into the deeper aspects of the story.
1:41.0	What it says about the failures of right-wing populist and MAGA governance, and what it reveals about deeper schisms inside MAGA ideology.
1:49.3	There are some big new developments here. Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth offered an incredibly
1:54.6	weak defense of this travesty. The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg revealed most of the text
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