Trump Defends Waltz After Group Chat Leak

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1: 3:05pm- According to reports, The Atlantic’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat with Trump Administration officials discussing planned military strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen. Spokesman for the White House National Security Council Brian Hughes said the messages Goldberg received appear to be “authentic.” In Goldberg’s report, he noted that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was responsible for the mistake and that he may have also violated a federal records law—as Waltz set some of the messages exchanged on Signal to auto-delete after one week. While speaking with the press from the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump defended Waltz and suggested he doubts his cabinet officials will rely on Signal for group discussions moving forward. 3:30pm- A recent Axios report notes that Democrats have their lowest favorability rating in the history of CNN polling, they have a bad 2026 Senate electoral map, and following the census in 2030—because residents of blue states are moving to red states in large numbers—Democrats will face an uphill battle in the electoral college in 2032. For example, California and New York are expected to lose a total of six House seats and, subsequently, six electoral votes. Rich notes he’s not sure how the Democrat Party can turn things around—as they continue to embrace unpopular policies despite the results of the 2024 election.

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0:00.0	The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth.
0:05.4	Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107.
0:15.8	Obviously, in the wake of this whole signal mess.
0:22.4	And Trump, the president, saying,
0:24.5	we'll be ending sanctuary cities, among other things.
0:25.2	Let's take a listen.
0:27.5	And nobody else has benefited by that.
0:30.3	And for some reason, Democrats want to keep and they want to shield criminals from being sent back to their countries
0:33.6	or being sent to prison.
0:35.4	And in the meantime, the crime rate has gone through the roof.
0:38.3	Under Biden, it was through the roof. It's starting to come down, but we're taking a lot of people out of here.
0:43.3	So we may be presenting you very shortly with an executive order ending sanctuary cities.
0:51.3	Mr. President, are you going to change any of the practices that your national security
0:55.5	officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen?
1:02.0	Well, I think it's a question I've been asked now and I've given a few answers and they've
1:08.5	all been the same.
1:09.8	We have an amazing group. Our national security now
1:12.7	is stronger than it's ever been. We have had a very, very successful numerous attacks on that
1:19.6	area. These are people that shoot down ships. Not only are ships, ships all over the world. They're
1:24.2	shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly,
1:28.1	or they're going down.
1:29.0	They're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area.
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