Pete Hegseth texted war plans to a reporter by accident

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

You liked auto-pen? 

I have news for you, Trump uses autopen and he used it frequently in his 1st term. All presidents since I think Clinton or Bush Jr. have used it. But no I do not like it. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

5 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I have news for you, Trump uses autopen and he used it frequently in his 1st term. All presidents since I think Clinton or Bush Jr. have used it. But no I do not like it. 

Trump used it for things like shutting down natural gas sales and thousands of last minute pardons or autographs to little league teams? The fact you think it’s the same says a lot about the level of ignorance you’re operating with. Good grief. 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

1 minute ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Trump used it for things like shutting down natural gas sales and thousands of last minute pardons or autographs to little league teams? The fact you think it’s the same says a lot about the level of ignorance you’re operating with. Good grief. 

I seriously doubt the veracity of that claim. But ok take the pardons - is there anything the maga crowd and Trump himself would love more than indicting Liz Cheney or Hunter Biden? They're not going to reverse or cancel the pardons because claiming they are illegal will just mean their own actions big or small could be reversed on the same basis.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

12 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I seriously doubt the veracity of that claim. But ok take the pardons - is there anything the maga crowd and Trump himself would love more than indicting Liz Cheney or Hunter Biden? They're not going to reverse or cancel the pardons because claiming they are illegal will just mean their own actions big or small could be reversed on the same basis.

You think he went over the thousand pardons that were granted in the last days of his tenure? That vegetable? 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

3 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

You think he went over the thousand pardons that were granted in the last days of his tenure? That vegetable? 

Well you raise a good point - didn't Trump pardon a bunch of drug dealers after the visit from Kanye West and Kim Kardashian? And didn't he just do it again with Jan6 convicts? I mean I'm all ears, but you believe or know that Trump personally sat down and scrawled out those hundreds of pardons?

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2 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Well you raise a good point - didn't Trump pardon a bunch of drug dealers after the visit from Kanye West and Kim Kardashian? And didn't he just do it again with Jan6 convicts? I mean I'm all ears, but you believe or know that Trump personally sat down and scrawled out those hundreds of pardons?

That was all one incident. It was a blanket pardon. Bidens were individual pardons. Not the same. Neither good, but Bidens was obviously being done by someone else. Trumps weren’t.  Do you really need all of this explained to you? 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

4 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

That was all one incident. It was a blanket pardon. Bidens were individual pardons. Not the same. Neither good, but Bidens was obviously being done by someone else. Trumps weren’t.  Do you really need all of this explained to you? 

Whoa who whoa. You're arguing that Biden needed someone to secretly sign his own name to his son's pardon? Or Liz Cheney's? And select them for pardons?  And this secret person (who would be...?) didn't want to include Biden himself in that?

And the blanket pardon was ok because... why? After the March Rich scandal - which was absolutely disgusting - a whole process of DOJ and WH counsel review was set up to prevent corrupt and just bad pardons. And Trump eschewed all that in the prior and current term. Who made that list of drug convicts and Jan6 names, you think Donald did that?

And frankly I'd rather you tell me Trump's en-masse pardons were done by someone else because some pretty awful violent people got out. As much as I think poorly of DJT I'd really like to think my president was not personally reviewing the files and approving each of those names. And I'm not talking political stuff.

[Mike Honcho 5,493]

3 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

She was put in charge of the southern border.  It’s better we judge people on results rather than your hysterical screeching. 

No she wasn't, you are lying again. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

3 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

No she wasn't, you are lying again. 

Nah. We all know she was. That’s why Lester Holt asked her if she had been to the border yet. You like to rewrite history. 

[Ron_Artest 2,350]

4 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Right, because they’re worried Stefanik will lose her seat.

whats even more ludicrous is Rubio is now NSA, & maybe Stephen Miller (!) will take over from him.

Stephen Miller?  Peewee German?  No thank you.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

4 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Stephen Miller?  Peewee German?  No thank you.

Your input is not being considered. 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

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A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal clone, as well as modified versions of WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat. TeleMessage was recently the center of a wave of media coverage after Mike Waltz accidentally revealed he used the tool in a cabinet meeting with President Trump.

The hack shows that an app gathering messages of the highest ranking officials in the government—Waltz’s chats on the app include recipients that appear to be Marco Rubio, Tulsi Gabbard, and JD Vance—contained serious vulnerabilities that allowed a hacker to trivially access the archived chats of some people who used the same tool. The hacker has not obtained the messages of cabinet members, Waltz, and people he spoke to, but the hack shows that the archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified version of the messaging app and the ultimate archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.

Data related to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the cryptocurrency giant Coinbase, and other financial institutions are included in the hacked material, according to screenshots of messages and backend systems obtained by 404 Media.

 

 

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42 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

 

You mean the same Signal the Biden admin also used too? 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

1 minute ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

You mean the same Signal the Biden admin also used too?

Nope, they were using a different app.

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,339]

Just now, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Nope, they were using a different app.

Sure they were. 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

5 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Sure they were. 

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During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages.

 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

But for this minor hiccup (no harm, no foul) Hegseth is killing it. Ridding the military of bloat and woke.  Salute. 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

Hegseth was responsible for canceling Ukrainian aid, without being instructed to by Trump.

[Ron_Artest 2,350]

Someone needs to ask Kegsbreath why he keeps losing these multi million dollar planes in the ocean.

Focking Fox News Drunk.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

4 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Someone needs to ask Kegsbreath why he keeps losing these multi million dollar planes in the ocean.

Focking Fox News Drunk.

8 billion and thirteen dead in Afghanistan. Didn’t hear much from you. STFU 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

19 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Someone needs to ask Kegsbreath why he keeps losing these multi million dollar planes in the ocean.

Focking Fox News Drunk.

The real reason we are pausing the attacks on Yemen.

[jbycho 756]

23 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

Someone needs to ask Kegsbreath why he keeps losing these multi million dollar planes in the ocean.

Focking Fox News Drunk.

22 pages of you whining in a single thread isn't enough for you?

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

The Pete Hegseth led investigation into Pete Hegseth has led to paranoia & infighting.

- The weirdness continues. Trump’s criminal lawyer who is now Hegseth’s aide has been spreading false claims about NSA wiretapping in an attempt to influence Trump. 

[squistion 2,611]

 

[squistion 2,611]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1948098462794342849

BREAKING WAPO:

The Pentagon's independent watchdog has evidence that messages from Pete Hegseth's Signal account previewing that U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN."

That contradicts Trump admin claims no classified info was divulged.

https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/hegseth-signalgate-classified-secret/

[Fnord 2,603]

31 minutes ago, squistion said:

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1948098462794342849

BREAKING WAPO:

The Pentagon's independent watchdog has evidence that messages from Pete Hegseth's Signal account previewing that U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled "SECRET/NOFORN."

That contradicts Trump admin claims no classified info was divulged.

https://washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/hegseth-signalgate-classified-secret/

Even the dopes in Trump's cabinet think Hegseth is in over his head. Who would'a thought?

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

I’ve been around a lot of guys like Hegseth in my life. Their act wears thin quick. 

[Ron_Artest 2,350]

Hegseth lied, trump lied.

Remember Hillarys emails?

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2 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

Hegseth lied, trump lied.

Remember Hillarys emails?

This is called hitting rock bottom with his whining. 

Gutterboy's got nothing left. 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

Atlantic

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Hegseth has a point: Maybe Kelly shouldn’t be in Congress. But the secretary is wrong about putting the senator back in the naval service. In a more sensible and serious world (and, yes, I know this is not the one we live in right now), Hegseth would be fired—and Kelly would take Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense.

Kelly is at least as qualified to lead the Pentagon as other recent appointees, and would probably be an easy addition to any future Democratic administration’s shopping list for senior defense or national-security roles. (He was also shortlisted to be Kamala Harris’s running mate in 2024.) A Navy pilot, Kelly flew 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm. He has a uniform heavy with awards, including medals with the combat “V,” a special addition that denotes valor and heroism. After the senator posted a picture of those medals yesterday on social media, Hegseth, one of the most eager and petty trollsin an administration full of them, immediately took to social media and claimed that they were in the wrong order. He also warned “Captain” Kelly—putting Kelly’s rank in scare quotes—that he will have to submit to a uniform inspection once he’s recalled.

….

All of these secretaries were competent men with records of achievement before coming to the Pentagon. They were professionals and patriots who cared about the security of the United States and the people who served in uniform. Hegseth, by comparison, is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season. He seems to believe that his job is hectoring young men about being fat and forcing Black men out of the military for having beards. He has no understanding of national strategy, and no real experience managing anything.

Nor is he a man who can serve as a model for his organization. Hegseth wants to recall Kelly so that he can level charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice against him, but when Hegseth was a serving officer, he could have faced the UCMJ himself: By his own admission, he was an adulterer with an alcohol problem. (Apparently, military justice for thee and not for me is the new rule in Hegseth’s Pentagon.) His tenure so far has featured a series of appalling security lapses and janky public performances that call into question not only his character but his emotional stability.

The Trump White House knows that Hegseth is nothing like Forrestal, or Aspin, or even Rumsfeld, for that matter, and that he is unqualified to do anything but push-ups. This realization is probably why Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, and not the actual head of the Pentagon, is the person meeting with the Russians in Geneva trying to stop the biggest war in Europe since 1945. Trump seems to like Hegseth, but the administration also seems to be taking care not to let Hegseth near anything breakable or dangerous.

 

Of course, Hegseth is still the secretary of defense, and thus the person who, in theory, must advise the president of the United States on the most dire issues of war and peace. He is also the official likely to be in the room and who would verify the orders if the commander in chief calls for the use of nuclear weapons. The idea that Hegseth would have to advise Trump in a moment of crisis is genuinely terrifying: The president is already showing increasing signs of panic and irrationality, and Hegseth is hardly the kind of stable or prudent aide one hopes would be nearby in times of danger.

For now, the White House seems content to let Hegseth preen and strut and yell, but the United States still needs an actual secretary of defense, and Pete Hegseth is completely unqualified for any position of public trust, elected or appointed, in the government of the United States.

Trump should look around and choose one. He has plenty of options—including Mark Kelly.<<

 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

November 2024, AP: Police report reveals assault allegations against Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary

>>>A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey. 
…

Tim Palatore, Hegseth’s attorney, has said the woman who made the allegations was paid an undisclosed sum in 2023 as part of a confidential settlement to head off the threat of what he described as a baseless lawsuit.

…

Investigators were first alerted to the alleged assault, the report said, by a nurse who called them after a patient requested a sexual assault exam. The patient told medical personnel she believed she was assaulted five days earlier but couldn’t remember much about what had happened. She reported something may have been slipped into her drink before ending up in the hotel room where she said the assault occurred.

Police collected the unwashed dress and underwear she had worn that night, the report said.

The woman’s partner, who was staying at the hotel with her, told police that he was worried about her that night after she didn’t come back to their room. At 2 a.m., he went to the hotel bar, but she wasn’t there. She made it back a few hours later, apologizing that she “must have fallen asleep.” A few days later, she told him she had been sexually assaulted. 

The woman, who helped organize the California Federation of Republican Women gathering at which Hegseth spoke, told police that she had witnessed the TV anchor acting inappropriately throughout the night and saw him stroking multiple women’s thighs. She texted a friend that Hegseth was giving off a “creeper” vibe, according to the report.

After the event, the woman and others attended an after-party in a hotel suite where she said she confronted Hegseth, telling him that she “did not appreciate how he treated women,” the report states.

A group of people, including Hegseth and the woman, decamped for the hotel’s bar. That’s when “things got fuzzy,” the woman told police. 

She remembered having a drink at the bar with Hegseth and others, the police report states. She also told police that she argued with Hegseth near the hotel pool, an account that is supported by a hotel staffer who was sent to handle the disturbance and spoke to police, according to the report. 

Soon, she told police, she was inside a hotel room with Hegseth, who took her phone and blocked the door with his body so that she could not leave, according to the report. She also told police she remembered “saying ‘no’ a lot,” the report said.

Her next memory was of lying on a couch or bed with a bare-chested Hegseth hovering over her, his dog tags dangling, the report states. Hegseth served in the National Guard, rising to the rank of major. 

After Hegseth finished, she recalled he threw a towel at her and asked if she was “OK,” the report states. She told police she did not recall how she got back to her own hotel room and had since suffered from nightmares and memory loss.

At the time of the alleged assault, Hegseth, now 44, was going through a divorce with his second wife, with whom he has three children. She filed for divorce after he had a child with a Fox News producer who is now his third wife, according to court records and social media posts by Hegseth. His first marriage ended in 2009, also after infidelity by Hegseth, according to court records. 

…Hegseth’s attorney said a payment was made to the woman as part of a confidential settlement a few years after the police investigation because Hegseth was concerned that she was prepared to file a lawsuit that he feared could have resulted in him being fired from Fox News, where he was a popular host. The attorney would not reveal the amount of the payment.<<
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- Have people forgotten about this? Amazing this reprobate is anywhere near a government desk.

 

[Gepetto 1,465]

11 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

November 2024, AP: Police report reveals assault allegations against Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary

>>>A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave, according to a detailed investigative report made public late Wednesday.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary, told police at the time that the encounter had been consensual and denied any wrongdoing, the report said.

News of the allegations surfaced last week when local officials released a brief statement confirming that a woman had accused Hegseth of sexual assault in October 2017 after he had spoken at a Republican women’s event in Monterey. 
…

Tim Palatore, Hegseth’s attorney, has said the woman who made the allegations was paid an undisclosed sum in 2023 as part of a confidential settlement to head off the threat of what he described as a baseless lawsuit.

…

Investigators were first alerted to the alleged assault, the report said, by a nurse who called them after a patient requested a sexual assault exam. The patient told medical personnel she believed she was assaulted five days earlier but couldn’t remember much about what had happened. She reported something may have been slipped into her drink before ending up in the hotel room where she said the assault occurred.

Police collected the unwashed dress and underwear she had worn that night, the report said.

The woman’s partner, who was staying at the hotel with her, told police that he was worried about her that night after she didn’t come back to their room. At 2 a.m., he went to the hotel bar, but she wasn’t there. She made it back a few hours later, apologizing that she “must have fallen asleep.” A few days later, she told him she had been sexually assaulted. 

The woman, who helped organize the California Federation of Republican Women gathering at which Hegseth spoke, told police that she had witnessed the TV anchor acting inappropriately throughout the night and saw him stroking multiple women’s thighs. She texted a friend that Hegseth was giving off a “creeper” vibe, according to the report.

After the event, the woman and others attended an after-party in a hotel suite where she said she confronted Hegseth, telling him that she “did not appreciate how he treated women,” the report states.

A group of people, including Hegseth and the woman, decamped for the hotel’s bar. That’s when “things got fuzzy,” the woman told police. 

She remembered having a drink at the bar with Hegseth and others, the police report states. She also told police that she argued with Hegseth near the hotel pool, an account that is supported by a hotel staffer who was sent to handle the disturbance and spoke to police, according to the report. 

Soon, she told police, she was inside a hotel room with Hegseth, who took her phone and blocked the door with his body so that she could not leave, according to the report. She also told police she remembered “saying ‘no’ a lot,” the report said.

Her next memory was of lying on a couch or bed with a bare-chested Hegseth hovering over her, his dog tags dangling, the report states. Hegseth served in the National Guard, rising to the rank of major. 

After Hegseth finished, she recalled he threw a towel at her and asked if she was “OK,” the report states. She told police she did not recall how she got back to her own hotel room and had since suffered from nightmares and memory loss.

At the time of the alleged assault, Hegseth, now 44, was going through a divorce with his second wife, with whom he has three children. She filed for divorce after he had a child with a Fox News producer who is now his third wife, according to court records and social media posts by Hegseth. His first marriage ended in 2009, also after infidelity by Hegseth, according to court records. 

…Hegseth’s attorney said a payment was made to the woman as part of a confidential settlement a few years after the police investigation because Hegseth was concerned that she was prepared to file a lawsuit that he feared could have resulted in him being fired from Fox News, where he was a popular host. The attorney would not reveal the amount of the payment.<<
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- Have people forgotten about this? Amazing this reprobate is anywhere near a government desk.

 

Sounds pretty obvious she cheated on the guy she was with by being with Hegseth and then making up the sexual assault story to appease her boyfriend. She just spend the night (until 2 am) with another man.

[Ron_Artest 2,350]

We should have known hegseth was a war criminal when he threw an axe at a drummer on live TV.

 

 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

8 hours ago, Gepetto said:

Sounds pretty obvious she cheated on the guy she was with by being with Hegseth and then making up the sexual assault story to appease her boyfriend. She just spend the night (until 2 am) with another man.

I don’t think that’s obvious at all. Hegseth was represented by Trump’s own lawyer, Parlatore, who is extremely aggressive. He also represented Eddie Gallagher. He’d sue someone over a false allegation & destroy their life over a false story. It also sounds like she had humiliated him publicly earlier in the evening, & her “partner” (actually it was her husband & 2 children) being with her at the hotel makes it less likely she’d sleep around not more.

[Tree of Knowledge 2,198]

2 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

We should have known hegseth was a war criminal when he threw an axe at a drummer on live TV.

 

 

Poor jealous beta Rusty.  Probably couldn’t throw a baseball that far.  

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

58 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I don’t think that’s obvious at all. Hegseth was represented by Trump’s own lawyer, Parlatore, who is extremely aggressive. He also represented Eddie Gallagher. He’d sue someone over a false allegation & destroy their life over a false story. It also sounds like she had humiliated him publicly earlier in the evening, & her partner being with her at the hotel makes it less likely she’d sleep around not more.

You’re a sad excuse for a man. Gossipy woman 

[SaintsInDome2006 736]

2 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

You’re a sad excuse for a man. Gossipy woman 

Sure, which is why behavior like this is prohibited in the military code of justice. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,946]

22 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Sure, which is why behavior like this is prohibited in the military code of justice. 

You’re right. We should round up all the guys that Fock around and replace them with eunuchs like you. 

[Ron_Artest 2,350]

13 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

You’re right. We should round up all the guys that Fock around and replace them with eunuchs like you. 

We should have people that follow the law and don't bring disgrace upon the US and our military.