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    5 days ago

    They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record

    January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day. Trump releases a statement on his top priorities for his presidency:

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/president-trumps-america-first-priorities/

    President Trump’s America First Priorities

    DRAIN THE SWAMP

    President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law.

    March 11, 2025. Jeffrey Goldberg receives chat group invitation for Cabinet-level officials for planning attack on Yemen.

    I see that top Trump priorities on swamp-draining lasted — assuming, perhaps generously, that this was the first such incident with Signal — almost seven weeks.

    Well, okay. I don’t know about the weaponization of government against political rivals. I seem to recall what looked like rather a lot of that, actually. But at least the document retention.