Jake Tapper’s Bleak Verdict Amid Signal Scandal Draws Wriest Of Smiles From Jeffrey Goldberg
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Six words from the CNN anchor drew a knowing smirk from The Atlantic's editor-in-chief.
CNN’s Jake Tapper offered a short but scathing assessment on Monday amid the White House’s efforts to sweep the war group chat fiasco under the rug.
Tapper interviewed The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to a group chat where top Trump officials were discussing a military strike in Yemen. Goldberg called out double standards from Republicans and Trump officials, who are now super keen to move on from the scandal.
“If this happened six months ago and it was Tony Blinken, the former secretary of state, and [then-National Security Advisor] Jake Sullivan and [then-Vice President] Kamala Harris talking about an imminent strike on some location in the Middle East, I don’t think that [now-Defense Secretary] Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump would be dismissing it out of hand,” he noted.
“I think that they would be going to town on it, and probably rightfully so, because it does represent a pretty big breach,” Goldberg added.
Tapper agreed, noting past GOP fury over mishandled classified information:
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