Mike Waltz To Cool His Heels In Greenland For A Bit Amid War Plan Chat Fiasco
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz will accompany Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance on a trip to Greenland Friday, according to CBS White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs.
Waltz has dominated the headlines this week after a reporter was accidentally added to a group chat with Waltz and 17 other senior Trump administration officials, including Vance, wherein the members proceeded to discuss and disclose national security secrets.
The Greenland trip, too, has not been without controversy.
According to Danish media, an American advance team struggled to find anyone in Nuuk, Greeland’s capital, willing to meet with Vance. Instead, the White House has opted to send the group to Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. military outpost far removed from Nuuk on Greenland’s northwestern coast.
Trump Returns To Same Tired Playbook, Attacks Judge Assigned To Group Chat Lawsuit
Trump had a midnight meltdown Thursday and found comfort in an old routine: whining about judges on social media.
This time around, Trump reserved his ire for U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who’s been assigned to hear arguments in a lawsuit regarding senior Trump administration officials disclosing national security information in an insecure group chat.
Boasberg has previously ruled in Trump’s favor numerous times, an inconvenient fact Trump decided to ignore Thursday when he accused the judge of harboring “hatred” for the president and having “Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
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Judge Hears Arguments In AP Challenge To Trump White House Ban
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden is hearing arguments Thursday on The Associated Press' challenge to the Trump administration's move to bar the news agency from covering White House events.
Trump targeted the AP over the outlet's decision to not use his "Gulf of America" term to refer to the Gulf of Mexico.
In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, AP executive editor Julie Pace reminded readers of what's at stake in this lawsuit.
"The AP has no corporate owner and no shareholders," Pace wrote. "If we don’t step up to defend Americans’ right to speak freely, who will? Today the U.S. government wants to control the AP’s speech. Tomorrow it could be someone else’s."
Pam Bondi Dodges Questions On Whether DOJ Will Investigate Signal Leak
Attorney General Pam Bondi avoided questions about whether the Department of Justice is looking into a Signal chat where sensitive war plans were discussed, calling the strike that was discussed on the message app by some of the administration's top officials a "successful mission.”
“Well, first, it was sensitive information, not classified, and inadvertently released,” Bondi said. “And what we should be talking about is it was a very successful mission. Our world is now safer because of that mission. We’re not going to comment any further on that.”
Bondi went on to point the finger at former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been routinely attacked by Republicans for her prior use of a private email server for government business.
“If you want to talk about classified information, talk about what was at Hillary Clinton’s home that she was trying to [wipe]," Bondi said.
In a statement on Wednesday, Clinton addressed the Signal leaks.
“The hypocrisy is staggering,” Clinton said. "But worse, the arrogance and incompetence puts the lives of our military men and women in danger."