By now you’ve probably heard about the kerfuffle involving Russia hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic and a private group chat on Signal that involved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and Trump national security advisor Mike Waltz.

Goldberg is a reporter, and he was accidentally included in a group chat about how the US military may or may not start dealing with the Houthis in Yemen. The media is describing this as an “unprecedented national security breach” and the biggest scandal since, well, the Russia hoax. Here’s what’s really going on.

First, Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic will say anything on behalf of the Deep State. He was one of the original Russia hoaxers and before that, he was a major part of the “very fine people on both sides” hoax in Charlottesville. Nothing that he says should be trusted.

Second, Mike Waltz is legitimately an idiot. He’s a Bush neocon who thinks that America should attack every country on earth all at once for the benefit of Israel. Waltz has pushed for Ukraine to lower its military draft age to 18 and to include women and teenage girls, so they can go die in Joe Biden’s unwinnable war against Russia. He’s really not a smart man and we’re not sure what he brings to the table in terms of being Trump’s national security advisor.

Another thing we’ll never understand is why Mike Waltz even had Jeffrey Goldberg saved in his contacts in the first place. Waltz included “JG” in the Signal chat in question and no one realized that there was a Russia hoaxer reading their semi-encrypted text messages.

Goldberg—who is a proven liar and will say anything—claims in his report in The Atlantic that Hegseth, Vance, Waltz, and others discussed “Yemen war plans” in the chat. This is completely false. Goldberg has not revealed anything in his report that could be considered classified information or war plans. Some of the information was “sensitive but unclassified.” There was no classified information disclosed in the chat and there certainly weren’t any war plans.

One thing that this proves, however, is that the Trump administration does not have a secure, classified, and encrypted method for Cabinet members to communicate with each other. All the legacy technology being used by the federal government is unsecure, outdated, and unsafe for them to use.

Trump and his team know that the Deep State is trying to thwart them at every turn. So, they have to rely on apps like Signal to even communicate with each other or try to meet face-to-face to have conversations.

We saw hints of this playing out after the election. Trump’s transition team would not allow the FBI to conduct background checks on his Cabinet nominees until after Trump’s people were in control of it. The FBI spies on everything that President Trump does and there’s no safe way for his people to communicate with each other using normal “government” channels.

These legacy communications systems aren’t safe for them to use, because they are battling against the government’s intelligence agencies to try to carry out the America First agenda. The government has never upgraded its communication systems because it was too busy spending your tax dollars on transgender operas in Mozambique and other nonsense.

The government communications don’t work. They’re not amazing, they’re not encrypted, and they’re not secure from being spied on by China, Russia, The Atlantic, or anyone else who wants to listen in.

This is part of why Hillary Clinton had an illegal server set up in the bathroom of her house. Government communications are not safe and everyone knows it. Hence, Trump’s Cabinet has to use Signal or other private-sector tools to even meet with each other.

Some are calling for Mike Waltz to be fired for being such an idiot:

The person who added the journalist to the group chat should be fired immediately. pic.twitter.com/5VEHWLkUsV

— Jesse Kelly Show (@JesseKellyShow) March 24, 2025

We’re inclined to agree, but we also don’t think that Trump should be handing his enemies any scalps this soon into his second administration. We all know what happened when the FBI set up Trump’s first national security advisor in 2017, Gen. Mike Flynn.

President Trump is standing by Waltz and says he has now “learned a valuable lesson.” We’re willing to give Waltz the benefit of the doubt for now, but if the president’s national security advisor doesn’t start showing better judgment than that—and very soon—he needs to be shown the door.