There’s One Part of the Signal Leak That I Can’t Get Out of My Head
This week, we found out our leaders are just more fools in a group chat.
Senate Confirms Trump’s Anti-Abortion Pick to Lead the FDA
On Tuesday night, the Senate 56 to 44 voted to confirm Martin Makary as Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.
Three Democrats—Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.),
‘Unthinkable’: Trump vows to ‘look into’ DOJ’s opposition to Ashli Babbitt lawsuit
In an interview Tuesday, President Trump vowed to look into the fact the U.S. Justice Department is still officially opposing the $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the Aaron Babbitt, the husband of Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed by a Capitol Police officer Jan. 6, 2021.
Speaking to Greg Kelly of Newsmax, Trump said he also plans to look into Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd, the man who gunned down Babbitt outside the House Speaker’s Lobby, and the government’s treatment and remuneration of the officer.
“I am a big fan of Ashli Babbitt, and Ashli Babbitt was a really good person,” Trump told Kelly. “She was innocently standing there … and a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her, and I think it’s a disgrace. I am going to look into that.”
Kelly mentioned the DOJ’s opposition to the 2024 lawsuit, to which Trump responded, “You’re just telling me that for the first time. I haven’t heard that.”
Watch a portion of Kelly’s interview with President Trump:
President Trump: “I am a big fan of Ashli Babbitt, and Ashli Babbitt was a really good person… She was innocently standing there… and a man did something to her that was unthinkable when he shot her and I think it’s a disgrace. I am going to look into that.” pic.twitter.com/764aC0J3xk
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 26, 2025
What we’ve learned from Trump team’s Signal chat | Letters
Readers react to the security breach by senior Trump administration figures
You report that White House top dogs described their “loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC” in a group chat on Signal (White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist, 24 March ). The subject of the chat was secret military plans for US attacks on the Houthis to protect shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
In early 2014, Victoria Nuland (then Barack Obama’s assistant secretary of state) was heard saying “Fuck the EU ” to Geoffrey Pyatt (the US ambassador to Ukraine) in a bugged phone conversation about the crisis in Ukraine that led to the Maidan revolution. It seems that Europe’s approach to the election that saw a pro-west president replace a pro-Russia one was not hawkish enough for then US tastes.
“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
On Friday, March 14, Arturo Suárez Trejo called his wife, Nathali Sánchez, from an immigration detention center in Texas. Suárez, a 33-year-old native of Caracas,