President Trump has given remarks supporting National Security Advisor Mike Waltz during an interview with NBC.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messaging app Signal where military plans were being discussed.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.
When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation.
The president expressed confidence in his team, saying he was not frustrated by the events leading up to The Atlantic’s story. The situation, Trump said, was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.” (more)
The rest of the DC setup is transparently clear. (1) Goldberg held the story until the day before a long-scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. (2) The SSCI then used the hearing to blast the heads of the Trump administration intelligence silos on the issue of “classified” information in the text messages.
♦ The next act in this well-known performance will be for Democrats to demand the release of the Signal App transcript, if it’s not classified, then there’s nothing to hide.
♦ Public pressure via narrative drum-pounding will continue to increase, until the chat messages are released to congress. [Keep in mind, Jeffrey Goldberg likely already has them.]
♦ Everyone in the chat group will then be told they must recuse themselves from internal silo determinations as to the classified status of the conversation. More public pressure will be generated to achieve this “position of conflict” demand.
♦ The Intelligence Community, without the heads of the silos – likely leveraging the internal investigative agents of the FBI (INSD), will then say the content of the chat was indeed classified, TSCI level. There will be weeks and months of leaks to the media as each granular detail is discussed ad infinitum.
♦ The cabinet members will then face the drumbeat of resignation demands, and/or useful impeachment fodder for ‘lying to congress’ during today’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence testimony.
At least that should be the anticipated approach by the “Seven Ways from Sunday” group, who operate to defend the interests of the Intelligence Community from agency heads like those who were on the Signal App chat group.
We’ve all watched this play before.
Name the staffer so we can research their connections.
It’s already done.
I saw a Hans Mahncke post that it is his deputy, a guy called Wong (as in sum ting) ex Covington, Cotton, Mittens and Bush-I kid you not. I’m hoping it’s true because that would be a great laugh.
‘Sum Ting Wong’…
I see what you did there, Well Done. haha
polygraph please…
Wash, rinse, repeat. What a snooze fest.
Tell them all to pound sand.
Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
Holmes: To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
Gregory: The dog did nothing in the night-time.
Holmes: That was the curious incident.
The dog is barking.
EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE RELEASE OF THE STRIKE PLANS
https://rumble.com/v6r75o8-everyone-is-talking-about-the-release-of-the-strike-plans.html
I wanna see results of that “staffer”s polygraph test, with pointed questions on how “accidental” the newsguy’s addition was
What’d we say as kids?
“Yeah … ‘accidentally’ on-purpose!”
I keep running into a logistical impasse. Why did no one in the whole group say NO to initiating the chat thread on Signal. All those big brains in one place and it was merely suggested they move future comms to secure avenues.
Signal was okayed to be used by the dept. and was used previously. Classified info was not put on there and in fact was referenced to be discussed further elsewhere on more secure venues.
Perhaps not but Warner sure blew a gasket when Tulsi wouldn’t agree to give him the messages.
Someone mentioned on sundance twitter feed that Signal is used to make it harder for the NSA, CIA, and FBI to monitor discussions as opposed to the official method which it 100% monitored.
Stupid assertion though because any state sponsored spy can hack any phone.
Exactly! It was an Op.
Nothing happens by accident in DC politics especially when Democrats are involved. Goldberg fabricated several good hits on President Trump…
1: The D Day Cemetery losers and suckers lie.
2: Telling a gold-star mom that he wasn’t wasting $60K on a Mexican’s funeral.
3:…and now I’m asked to believe Goldberg was accidentally added to a top secret Signal chat on bombing Yemen. No way. One Mike Walz’s guys is working for the Democrats and the MIC!
I still say it’s a tar baby. It certainly has a lot of leftists stuck on it.
Tim Pool has an interesting take. He suggests that the inclusion of Goldberg could have been intentional. The discussion that’s been released so far could have been written as an editorial in the Wall Street Journal. By using these guerrilla tactics and making it look like some kind of a classified information leak, the official narrative about our intervention is getting out all over the media landscape.
Might be too clever by half, could very well just be an accidental inclusion of the wrong Jeffrey in the group chat.
But seriously, why in the heck are they having such a discussion over chat on any platform? It’s so bizarre, it sort of lends Creedence to Tim Pool‘s theory. Note that the posts in the chat are not only grammatically correct, they’re formatted into paragraphs.
Like a script.
Did the Trump administration play Jeffrey Goldberg like a sucker and a loser? 😂 .
Tim Pool = CIA
Really? How is that?
Naww, I remember Pool back to 2015 when he was a nobody doing live streams at Antifa riots. He was a fence sitter back then.
“It’s April fools. Everything is the opposite of what it should be.” – 47
IT WAS AN AMBUSH
https://rumble.com/v6r76ze-it-was-an-ambush.html
Interesting take but I agree too cute by half.
maybe they oughta just throw up a Facebook Group for those discussions, yeah?
maybe even a MySpace page
😂
Outstanding meme. Big difference between IQs of 120-130 and scores of 160 upwards.
But I ‘m betting almost every adolescent with internet access has been burned by group messages….just saying, you don’t have to be a genius to know better.
Jeffery freaking Goldberg doesn’t get added to this call “by accident”.
Nay
That’s like saying Witkoff was duped
The whole incident sounds like a “canary trap” variant to me.
Too bad Tom Clancy is unavailable to elaborate on this…
I thought of this earlier this morning and posted the above when I returned home.
I just now read Charles Martin’s “Counterintelligence and Canary Traps” on PJ Media:
Counterintelligence and Canary Traps – PJ Media
All I can say is that great minds think alike.
EDIT: hyperlink is there in edit mode, but is plain text when posted… here’s the code:
https://pjmedia.com/charlie-martin/2025/03/25/counterintelligence-and-canary-traps-n4938265
Tom Clancy did not die of natural causes. Neither did Andrew Breitbart, Scalia, or James Gandolofino. And many others….
Michael Hastings, for one. I’ll go so far as to add Mike Vanderboegh. His cancer was in remission; but metastasized not long after the fateful trip to DC, where he was thrown out of a Congressional hearing.
Seven ways from Sunday…
I believe this Pool person is on to something. But he ends up with the wrong conclusion.
He says the whole thing was a setup to send a message to the MAGA people out there.
I think the whole thing was a set up to send a message to the Europeans and to Israel.
The message sent was: this shipping problem is your (Europe & Israel) mess so you need to pay to clean it up. We are not going to clean up your messes for free like we used to.
The same message to the same people applies to the war in the Ukraine
remember what they did in 2016.
hold the line.
don’t recuse.
don’t resign.
fff’m.
‘MERICA FIRST.
If a Dem asks for an investigation, just say no.
Newt Gingrich: Democrats are watching this ‘with terror’
NAFTA Newt!
I wonder what would happen to this abusive illegal lawfare gotcha game that the deep state, et. al., is now deploying against POTUS Trump to cripple this adminstration, if Sen. Mark Warner got wind of a rumor that if the aforementioned continues there might be some Senators and Representatives loosing their security clearances due to potentially sedicious/treasonous activities designed to overthrow or neuter a landslide elected POTUS, his administration and likewise promised policies.
Wouldn’t it be glorious if Kash announced we are taking this very seriously. We will be investigating exactly who disseminated this information after the “accidental” inclusion of said journalist.
The Signal conversation occurred on X day. The journalist had the information on X day and we will be looking into who was given this information from the time of the conversation to the time of the hearing today.
Fight fire with fire. Torch the jerks.
This is in the wheelhouse of the Echo Chamber.
The appropriate response is to ignore it and flood the zone with 1) updates on the J6 video release and J6 bomber 2) press Ukraine into an election 3) tell Netanyahu to wrap up Gaza ops 4) Epstein files AND tease videos.
Again, success this term is dependent on continuing to flood the zone.
Huh. Who knew?
I guess it worked, no?
How did Goldberg, of all the journalists in the entire world, get the Signal scoop by accident?
Bigger question: Why did he sit on the story for 2 weeks, and then release it the day before the SCSI hearing? 🤨
Correct. I don’t think this was a mistake. My intuition tells me this is a setup.
Release timed just ahead of the scheduled hearing today. That’s easy enough.
He didn’t sit on it. He gave it to the lawfare crew. The Dem senators are not that bright; very bright people had been working on that line of cross examination for at least a week and they worked the Dem Senators for part of that time.
Q: How did Goldberg, of all the journalists in the entire world, get the Signal scoop by accident?
A: The same way Boasberg and Democrat Obama judges get “randomly” assigned to every Trump court case!
Read my post
Mike Walz is a snake
Worked with bunch of Dems and Soros
The Atlantic owner (wealthy widow), purchased a house recently in SF. It happens to be right next door to the stealth tech titan, who is the key component, of that tech trilogy of AI domination. You know the one SD has laid out in detail. Tech titan, also happened to be very close to the widow’s late husband. Hard to believe this is a coincidence.
Laurene Jobs purchased the house for 70 million , next door to Larry Ellison. Truly unbelievable home. https://homeworthy.com/laurene-powell-jobs-makes-headlines-with-70-million-purchase-of-san-franciscos-most-opulent-mansion
Much ado about nothing
Wasn’t it Goldberg and his Momma that were trying to prevent Trumps Election during the first cycle. Nuts don’t fall far from the tree. I thought he would be out of knee pans by now. I want my Mommas approval.
I don’t think they’re related. The Goldberg you’re thinking of is Joshua. Lucianne was Monica Lewinsky’s lawyer.
Jonah.
Walz’s full 14 min interview with Laura Ingraham is linked in this article. I thought Walz came across really well.
Something is clearly puzzling behind this whole thing though. They know through whom the journalist got added….but not how it happened. He says Elon’s tech team is on it to figure that out. My gut still tells me there is a deep state or internal sabotage element to this (not involving Walz or his staffer).
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National Security Advisor Mike Waltz takes responsibility for ’embarrassing’ Signal chat leak
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/media/national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-takes-responsibility-embarrassing-signal-chat-leak.amp
Walz is not innocent
IMO
Read this by Bad Kitty:
https://nitter.poast.org/pepesgrandma/status/1904578974136545497#m
WHO NOMINATED MIKE WALZ FOR HIS POSITION?
IMO HE IS A DEM PLANT
Paging President Trump!!!
“Why did they have such a ‘chat?’” Isn’t it obvious? They never would. A completely public, non-secure platform? Uhh, no.
“Adding a journalist” is merely a distraction from the very obvious fact that such a venue would never be used. Never.
So: What sort of “public event” was this whole thing devised to be … and, why?
Any time such people need to “chat among themselves,” they have military-grade secure means by which to do so. And, staff whose sole job it is to guarantee security. They can “chat away” in TOP secrecy. They would never do otherwise!
“Prima facie,” this makes zero sense. But one thing I know: this was no breach of state-level security.
If the players which were intended to create chaos have had their security clearances revoked, wouldn’t it make sense to set this up using such a non-secure platform to appear as a breach of security to use against this administration? Just another clumsy attempt of the seven ways to Sunday approach.
Bob Woodward must be jealous……
Are we sure it wasn’t “accidently”?
There are on accidents where President Trump is concerned
Given this all took place just before the global security hearing tells you everything you need to know about the word accidental.
Let’s think about this. This smells like a retread of the Ukraine Phone Call Impeachment Hoax with Soy Boy’s Ciaramella and Vindman executing the whistleblower hoax.
The story breaks a day before the senate intel committee meets. Hmmm. This sounds to me like Waltz’s staffer, along with Goldberg planned this entire charade. I’m admittedly speculating, but allowing past events to guide my reasoning.
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.
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In comments on that thread…
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SGW
@stang2u
CIA director said that when they use signal that they make a copy of the messages to comply with the laws of all government records must be kept. That’s the rule that President Trump gave for them to use it. Previous administration used it but who knows if they kept their messages
6:28 PM · Mar 25, 2025
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Previous Administrations kept their copies at the Russian and Chinese Embassies.
There you go. When should we expect the raids on their homes?
I could be mistaken, but perhaps President Trump set another trap…
On March 18, President Trump posted the following on his TruthSocial Platform:
Third Rate Magazine, “The Atlantic,” that made up the “Suckers and Losers” Hoax about me and the Military, and refused to even acknowledge the vast horde of people who emphatically denied this FAKE STORY, has asked me to do an interview.
Below is my response:
Ashley Parker is not capable of doing a fair and unbiased interview. She is a Radical Left Lunatic, and has been as terrible as is possible for as long as I have known her. To this date, she doesn’t even know that I won the Presidency THREE times. If you have some other reporter, let us know, but Ashley is not capable or competent enough to understand the intricacies of High Level politics. Likewise, Michall Scherer has never written a fair story about me, only negative, and virtually always LIES. The Atlantic is doing terribly, losing a fortune, and will hopefully fold up and be gone in the not too distant future. It has absolutely no credibility, and would be far better off, in terms of “journalism,” to cease publication. Nevertheless, when you have a writer with intelligence, competence, and fairness, please let me know!
I have a feeling this will not end well for Goldberg, the “assistant”, and “The Atlanti,c” home to the Treasonous Dr. Evelyn Farkas
farkas! would she be a problem child from the red headed thug from christmas story?
Great Scott!
I concur – see my “canary trap” post, above.
🚨 WATCH FULL INTERVIEW: Fox News’ @IngrahamAngle asks @MikeWaltz47: “How did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?”
A: Waltz’s Bush/Cheney staffers cooked up this charade with their Democrat Partners.
This is how the Uni-Party shot the President, too.
Not a reassuring performance by Waltz, at least not to me.
Agree. A weak choice to begin with. And Reps forfeited a seat in the House for this guy (until next election, which I understand is closer than it needs to be). This isn’t going to blow over. This guy will be gone by the end of May.
In like Flynn?
I’m already tuned out on it!
I don’t find him convincing. He effed up.
MNN BREAKING…
HOUTHIS COMPLAIN ABOUT SIGNALGATE LEAKS: “IT TAKES ALL THE FUN OUT OF IT.”
AS REPARATIONS, THEY DEMAND ALL THEIR USAID FUNDING BE RESTORED
That staffer should never be within 50 miles of any meeting of any kind. Things do not happen by “accident” at that level.
If I heard him correctly he was saying a staffer was not at fault.
More like they spoofed (or whatever the term is) the phone number of a legitimate participant so no one would no the correct person was not on the call. He wouldn’t say who they “thought” was on the call.
“We’ve all watched this play before.” – Sundance
yup
Didn’t Hunter Biden use to sit in on meetings that he never should of been a part of?!
AND Dr Jill Biden did that for sure.
Question: what would happen if Trump and his people held a presser and told America what you just said? Told them the “journo” is a CIA asset used for just such occasions.
And told them why it is the CIA did it? (Ukraine, etc.)
And pointed out the CIA is not supposed to be privy to any conversations of US Persons.
Globalist, neocon, warmonger Mike Waltz added Goldberg to initiate the downfall and impeachment proceedings for President Trump. Waltz thought Trump would protect him and not point the blame back at him. Thank God Trump didn’t do that because speculation is poison for an administration. In the first term, Trump would have protected Waltz. In this term, Trump did the right thing by outing Waltz.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he is a good man.”: fact is, Mr. President, he’s a politician and 3-term MC who has shakey ties to the IC and shouldn’t need to be learning this sort of lesson at your expense and as your National Security Advisor.
“Will Cain Tears Into Critics of Signal Chat Flub With Brutal Takedown”…..
Yeah, Bannon played 20 minutes of Warner today and I puked. That guy needs to be slapped. Hard.
Where was the Democrat outrage when Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State was caught using a private server and a non-government approved telephone when communicating all of her messages that were available to hackers of every enemy of the USA?
It appears that if a Democrat breaks a rule or law, it’s OK. But if anyone linked to President Trump does something against the rules, all hell breaks loose! Pure and simple hypocrisy.
Yeah yeah yeah….What’s new??? I dont care what they say or do or what they call me. we have a segment of our population that has gone insane and the most corrupt amongst us are using them as useful idiots.
KISS MY ASS, FULL SPEED AHEAD. ALL GAS, NO BRAKE.
Fair enough, but like I posted, this guy had better be on a short leash.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/03/25/stop-caring-about-the-silly-signal-non-scandal-n2654458
Here is a list of Democrat security breaches and it’s long and awful.
That said, I hope that it was a onetime unforced error, since baseball is almost here. We don’t need a bunch of wild pitches and unearned runs..
So true!
I ran out of F’s to give back in 2015.
Say what you want, I DONT CARE.
The whole House and Senate can suck my….I DONT CARE.
The Senate won’t do anything on Trump’s domestic policy and budgets for at least two months.
Why didn’t Goldberg release a screenshot of who invited him to the chat?
Waltz on Ingraham’s show tonight said it wasn’t a staffer who did this. It was he who gathered the group on Signal. Goldberg somehow was using a phone number of someone Waltz okayed to be in the group chat. He would not name the person. So Goldberg was using another phone number which was a recognized number and was allowed on the chat. Question is who switched the users? Goldberg should be accused of impersonating another person to get access to this private group chat.
Waltz took full blame and said they were working on how it occurred. Sound plausible? Maybe. Goldberg should definitely be charged though because he had to know it wasn’t his own phone number on that call yet he used it to hide his identity and then screen shot private govt. info.
Somehow that explanation doesn’t make me feel any better. Remember he was most recently a member of the House of Representatives -a body renown for its idiots. He may be one of them.
I’m sorry but I wasn’t born yesterday. Whoever that phone number belonged to is the person who switched the users and gave it to Goldberg. If that person was not in the chat, then it is patently obvious.
I’m sure that President Trump has asked Waltz who the person was and Waltz had to tell him.
If Walz lied to Trump, and I pray that he didn’t, his career is over, and the ending will not be pretty.
It was an Op. A totally inside job by the Democrats and their RINO allies in the White House.
You can take that to the bank!
I’m OK with Goldberg getting a virtual colonoscopy. I don’t believe he’s anywhere close to being an honorable person.
Walz is dodgy AF
Read bad Kitty
https://nitter.poast.org/pepesgrandma/status/1904578974136545497#m
Calm down everyone. Looks like the story is just another hoax by Jeff goldberg. It’s falling apart. CIA director says no classified info was on the chat. SECDEF says no wars plans were discussed. Put up or shut up goldberg, you’ve been called.
Why haven’t most of the holdovers in the IC been fired and cleared out? This is just another saboteur undermining the administration. CIA? Ratcliffe is asleep. Clear out the holdovers .
It’s unforgivable that every agency is still jam packed with anti Trump people . The government needs to be completely gutted and until it is this is the norm.
This ^^^ is true and accurate
COULD BE TRUMP JUST HIT BACK. ORDERED RELEASE OF ALL CROSSFIRE HURRICANE DOCS.
One interesting thing with this episode is the phone number was on Waltz’s phone yet the media, and certain politicians, are calling for Hegseth’s resignation.
Makes me wonder if signals got crossed and that phone with the pre-existing reporter’s number was supposed to go to Hegseth and, with it ending up in Waltz’s hands, did those reporters and politicians calling for Hegseth’s resignation not get the memo the wrong guy got the phone?
Are the Keystone Kops at it again?
The media is pissed because Hegseth attacked Goldberg
They whole darn thing is Keystone Kopesque. Trump can give Mike Waltz a break, but he had better be on a short leash and why isn’t the naming and firing of this “staffer” even on the table. We can’t afford eff ups like this.
If it were on purpose to insult Europe then it should be verified now that the operation is past. If the goal was to insult Europe, that would even add to the insult.
Insult UK…and Europe.
Mainly to insult the freeloader UK and filthy Sir Keir Starmer and the wretched parasite royals he serves.
sounds like if johnson comes thru with a recess that waltz could be fired and trump recess appoint someone more to his liking to the position.
Make it easy. Say the information is classified, confiscate the phone of Goldberg and if Goldberg sent any of that information to anyone, he will be charged with multiple crimes. Anyone that received the information from Goldberg will also be charged with a crime. Simple
Confiscate Goldberg’s phone? The dudes at Ft Meade already know what is on his phone.
Goldberg was invited on the chat, right? They traced him
Washington DC has been a ghost town for the last four years. Soros and his pals have that entire city bugged. They could have wired the whole town with explosives for all we know. They set up a fake Oval Office across the street! The point is, Trump’s team better scrap whatever comms the traitors used for something brand new from Musk, or some other ally of We The People.
Why didn’t Goldberg screen shot the invite? I mean a screen shot of “Mike Waltz added you to the chat” would have been huge.
@pepesgrandma
9h
Breaking!
Mike Waltz was a fellow at a Soros funded and ran leftist think tank where the CEO was Hillary Clinton’s very own Anne-Marie Slaughter!
And the director was Jonathan Soros himself!
Recall Mike Waltz is the one who let The Atlantic journo into the Trump admin phone call.
So who are some of the folks that have Funded New America?
– The Ford Foundation
– The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
– Eric and Wendy Schmidt
– Soros Open Society Institute
– Google, Inc.
– Joyce Foundation (Obama Linked) –
Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation
– Omidyar – Etc
So who worked at New America?
– Anne Marie Slaughter, CEO
– Eric Schmidt, (past Google) Chairman,
Obama and Hillary pal and helped their campaigns
– Reid Hoffman, Board member
– Michael crow, Thru Progress Network ran by New America, President ASU and chair of CIA’s In-Q-Tel
– Plus more Anne-Marie Slaughter from 2009-2011, served as the director of Policy Planning under the Hillary Clinton Department of State.
Anne-Marie Slaughter worked Hillary’s 2016 Campaign as a part of a past Intelligence task force to protect Hillarys narrative.
Slaughter was once referred to as being one of the “Gang Of Three”:
– Samantha Powers
– Ann-Marie Slaughter
– Susan Rice
Slaughter also cowrote with Nina Jankowicz.
I can write so much more, but I think this is plenty.
https://nitter.poast.org/pepesgrandma/status/1904578974136545497#m
Absolute insanity.
This was a set up no doubt about it. To have this leaked before testimonies were to be given to the senate and the senators having their bullcrap ready to be spewed tells me Trump has a mole in his administration.
Any ideas who the mole might be?
What if there is no mole? What if this was a designed play, a jet sweep, to set up the declassification of Crossfire Hurricane?
Trump remembers his mistake in firing Mike Flynn. Waltz owes him now.
What the hell is wrong with Trump. This is the source of leeks – whether it is Waltz himself or his damn staff – it means they are the leak.
Time for Trump to find his inner Apprentice and “You’re Fired”.
Then circle wagons and go after them all.
No prisoners.
Wrong President Trump
This guy is a liar
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-breaks-silence-embarrassing/
FOOL NELSON
@FOOL_NELSON
Something odd is going on here though, seemingly Waltz and Goldberg weren’t in contact on Signal before March 11th when Goldberg received a connection request. Either Waltz had Goldberg’s number on his phone, which he denies, or someone typed the number in Signal. DOGE will know.
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Good.
Way out in left field but a thought that just came to me after several hours of reading comments…
Waltz’s wife had access to his phone & she’s a hard-liner lib. At some point this has to be followed up on. Did she access MW’s phone & swap a number in his contact list so that at some unknown point in the future that phone would deliver something potentially useful to the Liberals?
Still trying to to take our President Trump down. Just like in his last administration. Praying it not working
Sundance: “CIA op all the way. No question.”….