Judge Boasberg is playing his part and says he going to issue an order barring the Trump officials from destroying messages related to the Signal breach.

This is such a dumb scandal and lawsuit.

Yes, a staffer for Waltz screwed up and allowed that hack over at the Atlantic into the chat stream – and that staffer should probably be fired. But that’s really the end of it for me. There was no classified information shared on the app, although there are some disputing this in regard to some of Hegseth’s messages.

Signal was already loaded on their devices from the last administration, and the Obama administration used it too. People are just trying to scandalize this to try and get some kind of traction against Trump.

It is a distraction and there is some reporting that he’s pretty ticked off about it, as you might expect him to be:

NEW: White House debated whether Mike Waltz should resign, but in the end, he never made the offer, and President Trump has not asked him to step down. But Trump continues to privately vent his irritation about it. Also during this bad week, the president was unaware that four soldiers had gone missing the day before in Lithuania until a reporter asked him about it on-camera.

Waltz’s deputy national security adviser Alex Wong has been taking fire from staunch Trump supporters and conservative media over the Signal incident, but while he was a participant in the conversation he wasn’t involved in setting up the chat, sources told me. It was Waltz who added a journalist to the Signal chain.

From everything we’ve been told it was a staffer. That’s what I’m going with for now and hopefully we don’t find out later that Waltz lied about it.