'Criminal charges!' Trump officials in war plan chat demanded 'accountability' for Clinton
Sarah Longwell, founder and publisher of the conservative media outlet The Bulwark, slammed the Trump administration on X after the now infamous leak of the Signal chat that revealed highly sensitive war plans against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, dropped a bombshell Monday in an extraordinary article detailing how he was inadvertently included in a Signal messaging chat revealing an imminent military strike. CNN reported that Goldberg was added by someone using National Security Adviser Mike Waltz's account.
Some 18 top Trump officials were believed to have been on the messaging chain.
"I’m going to spend the rest of my afternoon posting clips of high-level officials on that Signal text chain demanding 'accountability' for Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information," Longwell posted along with a clip of now Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
In 2016, FBI director James Comey announced he was reopening the probe into Clinton's use of an unsecured server to send sensitive government emails. His disclosure right before the 2016 election was one factor that was believed to have lost her the presidency to Donald Trump.
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Longwell's first retweeted clip was from 2016 when then-Sen. Rubio (R-FL) was running for the Republican nomination for president. He claimed that then-President Barack Obama was "willing to protect his political cronies, but we're going to hold people accountable. Nobody is above the law, even Hillary Clinton, even though she thinks she is."
Longwell also retweeted a 2022 post from now-White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller who wrote, "One point that doesn’t get made enough about Hillary’s unsecured server illegally used to conduct state business (obviously created to hide the Clintons’ corrupt pay-for-play): foreign adversaries could easily hack classified ops & intel in real time from other side of the globe."
Fox News clips show now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saying there would "likely be criminal charges" brought against Clinton "to be fair about it," and that there was a "double standard" that would have locked a Republican in prison.
Longwell reposted what she called was a "banger" from now-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard: "Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such."
CIA Director John Ratcliffe and President Donald Trump were also included in Longwell's list.