Shlomo ha'Melech on the Trump Administration's Group Chat Leak

Everyone's talking about Jeffrey Goldberg's bombshell Atlantic piece, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." What might Shlomo say?

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Shlomo ha'Melech on the Trump Administration's Group Chat Leak

For those who haven't heard, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a Signal group chat where the vice president, the secretaries of defense and the treasury, the director of national intelligence, and other top officials discussed top-secret military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. At first, Goldberg suspected the chat might be a disinformation campaign—or a sick joke—but when news broke that the bombs had hit their targets exactly as discussed, he realized it was the real thing.

If you can access the original article, The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans, it’s worth reading. See also the sequel, Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal, which The Atlantic published today in response to Pete Hegseth’s claim that “Nobody was texting war plans.”

When I first heard about this, I immediately thought of the following verse: