Hey Lemon Nation, I'm Tara Setmayer and welcome to this week's Setmayer Soundoff.

Okay, so you know there was no way I wasn't going to talk about this absolute insanity

and absurdity of the latest Trump administration scandal.

Signalgate.

Or maybe I should call it the next episode of, I don't know,

America's dumbest security fails, season one. First of all, we had this signal chat disaster. We've

all read about it by now, where Trump's top officials accidentally added

the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, into a group chat discussing really sensitive

military operations in Yemen. You would think that after something like that, that's that asinine, that they'd be on high

alert. But maybe like put together a little refresher course on Opsack for dummies or how not

to leak national security information 101. I don't know. But you know what? That would require

way too much competence. So have you heard

the latest headlines? Okay, this is the news now. Venmo has entered the chat. Yes, the same app that

you use to pay back your friends for like Taco Tuesday or it's like to pay your teenage babysitter

on the weekends. Yeah, that app. Again, big shout

out to wired.com for the win. According to their latest report, okay, it turns out that the

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, he left his Venmo friends list public. All 328 of them. And who's on this illustrious list? Well, according to Wired,

it's everyone from White House Chief of Sapsed Susie Wiles to the national security staffer

Walker Barrett, and then there's a who's who of like Trump World cronies.

Quote, other accounts carry the names of a wide range of media figures from on-air

personalities like Brett Bear and Brian Kilme to Fox News, shocker, and Brayana Keeler and

Kristen Holmes of CNN to a cable news producer, a prominent national security reporter,

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