At recent Senate and House Intelligence hearings, Donald Trump’s most incompetent and reckless allies struggled with evasions, mischaracterizations, and outright lies. This followed what former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg described as a “major fuck-up.”
The controversy began when National Security Advisor Mike Waltz inexplicably invited The Atlantic editor and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg into a public group chat where they were discussing a bombing raid on Houthi strongholds in Yemen. The decision was widely criticized as both foolish and highly inappropriate. As a result, Arizona Democrats, including members of Congress, are now calling for some participants in the chat—particularly Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—to resign.
Arizona CD One House Representative Yassamin Ansari posted:
“The incompetence, lies, and recklessness of Trump’s national security advisors is even more astounding than we initially realized. Sharing explicit details with time stamps of war plans not only creates an enormous national security risk, it directly endangers our service members. Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth should resign or be fired, and the Republican majority in Congress must launch a thorough investigation so we can hold them accountable.”
Marine Veteran and Arizona CD Six House Candidate JoAnna Mendoza issued a press release that read:
“As someone who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan and trained the next generation of warriors as a Drill Instructor, I can tell you that the most valuable asset in our military is the service member.
We all took an oath to the Constitution knowing that we were putting our lives on the line. When our top military leaders put troops in harm’s way through carelessness, then lies to the American people about it, that’s a leadership failure and betrayal.
Keeping our troops safe must be the top priority. Pete Hegseth has proven he’s not up to the task. For the safety of those who serve, Hegseth can no longer serve as Secretary of Defense, and if he doesn’t resign, then President Trump should fire him.”
Arizona CD Four House Representative Greg Stanton also posted:
Senator Mark Kelly, who grilled the leading “intelligence” heads in a hearing yesterday, called what Trump’s Worst and Dumbest did on a public chat application ” a clown show” where no one realized that there was a reporter on the call. He also demanded accountability for “this mess.”
In another post, Senator Kelly called on Hegseth to resign.
In his media post, Senator Ruben Gallego threw now Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s words on publicly sharing classified information back at him, calling his recent actions “irresponsible” and questioning “his ability to lead” in calling for him to resign.
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Clearly, it was a big blunder and an embarrassing one. However, it’s hypocritical for those who remained silent when Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, was discovered to have top secret emails on a home laptop to now criticize this. And don’t forget that the FBI said it was possible that foreign powers hacked into Hillary’s computer.
Speaking of blunders, how about Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which cost American lives and gave terrorists control of a country?
Apples and peanuts John on comparing Hilary’s emails to Trump’s worst and dumbest. And Afghanistan. It was Trump’s withdrawal plan that helped get the Taliban back in power.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/27/nx-s1-5090061/the-chaotic-u-s-exit-from-afghanistan-in-2021-had-stems-from-four-administrations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/trump-hegseth-signal-chat.html
And why are you guys at the legislature, be it your trans legislation, blocking aid to disabled kids including the Arizona School for the Deaf, and children who need free lunches, going after vulnerable, innocent children? Care to comment? And do not give the party line about Hobbs mismanagement. We all know that is a hypocritical and false talking points. You routinely passed supplementals for Ducey, he of the $300 million crates on the border expenditure.
Have a great weekend and take care.