Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said Wednesday that the Trump administration’s national security mishap over Signal represents a pattern of “sloppiness.”

“If this was a one-off — if this was ‘Oh my gosh, we’re rookies. We didn’t understand how to add people to a chat line,’ — but this is a history or pattern of sloppiness,” Warner told Joe Kernen on CNBC’s Squawk Box.

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“Two weeks in, just before Ratcliffe got to the CIA, they released, inadvertently, 200 names of CIA officers. So, their identities were discovered.”

The Signal mess saw top President Donald Trump’s security team members discuss an impending attack against the Houthis in a group chat that included Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic.

Washington Examiner reporting has described Goldberg as a virulently anti-Trump journalist.

Kernen asked Warner if he thought someone in the Trump administration was disloyal and could have orchestrated the incident.

“Wouldn’t you want to know?” Kernen said. “You’re not gonna ask any questions? You’re like, ‘Thank you, sir! We love this, but we don’t know how it happened?”

“It might [have] been the aliens that I think Ms. Gabbard, one of these people said before were interfering in elections,” Warner replied. “Maybe they mysteriously pressed Jeff Goldberg secretly into this channel.”

Warner and Democrats appear outraged over the Signal mess, but Kernen asked the Virginia senator whether he felt the same after former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went missing for “two weeks” under former President Joe Biden.

“I called that out as inappropriate behavior,” Warner said.

“But you didn’t demand a resignation,” Kernen fired back.

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SIGNAL MESS

National security adviser Mike Waltz said he knew nothing of Goldberg prior to the Signal incident.

“I can tell you for 100% I don’t know this guy [Goldberg],” Waltz said. “I know him by his horrible reputation, and he really is the bottom scum of journalists … I don’t text him, he wasn’t on my phone, and we’re going to figure out how this happened.”