That’s certainly one way to spin it.

I’m sure you’re all well aware of that whole reporter accidentally being added to a group chat discussing war targets thing.

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Yep, you *almost* can’t make this stuff up.

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Well, Fox News host Jesse Watters covered the topic, and, uhhhh, he had an interesting take:

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“Do you ever try to start a group text, you’re adding people and you accidentally add the wrong person. All of a sudden your Aunt Mary knows all the raunchy plans for the bachelor party. Well, that kind of happened today with the Trump administration,” he explained.

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“Mike Waltz was putting together a group chat on Signal, an encrypted app, with the Secretary of Defense, the VP, and a bunch of other national security officials to collaborate on whether to strike Iranian proxies in Yemen who keep firing missiles and shutting down shipping,” he continued. “Well, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added a reporter to the group text, and not a good reporter, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic. One of the biggest hoax artists around.”

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“Well, he heard some things he probably shouldn’t have but could have been a WEE bit of a security breach.”

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“But it’s not like they home-brewed a server and then bleached it or kept classified documents in their garages next to their Corvette,” he complained. “I’m sure it won’t happen again.”

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Let’s just say people are a wee bit surprised by this messaging.

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First of all, that whole “wee bit of a security breach” thing is blowing people’s minds.

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“‘Wee bit of a security breach’ is crazy.”

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Other people were, just, like, “oh come on.”

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“….The delusion.”

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And this person said, “Yeah we’ve all texted the wrong person before. But I’m not texting an old co-worker plans for bombing a country.”

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