We'll kick this story off with the understatement of the decade: The legacy media hasn't earned the right to be viewed with anything other than skepticism. That includes many of the MSM reports about the Signal chat that for some reason included the editor of The Atlantic.
The Atlantic's stories that have been published ever since Jeffery Goldberg was included on a Signal text chain discussing Defense Department operations have taken over the news cycle. Defense Secretary Hegseth responded by saying the texts Goldberg received contained no "war plans" or "attack plans" while White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt basically said the whole story is a big nothingburger..
Meanwhile, CNN's doing the "sources say" thing again for their report claiming the chat was "highly classified at the time" it was written:
Sources confirm to me & @NatashaBertrand what appeared to be true: the info disclosed by SecDef Hegseth in the Signal chat was highly classified at the time he wrote it. https://t.co/uSjAe0T0eC
— Zachary Cohen (@ZcohenCNN) March 26, 2025
Earlier we talked about the media having earned every ounce of skepticism that is thrown in their direction over their reporting that's often just narrative fuel for the Democrats.
With that in mind, The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway would like to know where this latest offering from CNN might fall on the "fake news" scale:
On the scale of "Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election" to "50 intel officials say the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation," where should we put all y'all's latest claim?
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 26, 2025
So, where does this story fall? Place your bets!
Fusion Natasha isn’t an expert on ANY of this. https://t.co/DPgZHe3us6
— Matt Beebe (@TheMattBeebe) March 26, 2025
It’s somewhere near “Trump ripped up documents and flushed them down the toilet”
— Just Human (@realjusthuman) March 26, 2025
"Trump grabbed the steering wheel" was another doozy.
This rates as a 0 to me. https://t.co/PbtoQ5XjcX
— RepubDreamTeam (@CathyMcBreen) March 26, 2025
What “sources” are saying that? Same sources that said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation? https://t.co/KruqT67z1U
— Adam (@Alan21555) March 26, 2025
Where we file everything from Natasha pic.twitter.com/NXdrKUzjlC
— Joe “Big Balls" Friday (@InsurancePlanX) March 26, 2025
Let's just say that the track records of some of these "journalists," not to mention their unnamed sources, aren't all that great.
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Editor's Note: Thanks to President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership, the warrior ethos is coming back to America's military.
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