The reporter is a former IDF soldier, there is no way he would face any real blowback from Trump. There is a reason they had his number to add to the group and it’s because they were already feeding him information. The Atlantic is just a left coded mouthpiece for the State Department.
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T156@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:
Although that may have had him arrested/raided for accessing most secret information he lacks clearance for, so leaving upon finding out it was the real thing and not a joke group was the better move.
ansiz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
So your conspiracy is that a left-wing aligned journalist was in the phone of a right-wing politician. Therefore it’s his fault he received the information and shouldn’t have reported it?
Really? Even the flat Earth people would think that’s stupid.
ansiz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lol, I didn’t say any of that. But it’s a fact Goldberg has been a mouthpiece for the State department going back to at least the Iraq war in my opinion. He’s not a Trump guy but just doesn’t want to piss off any current administration so he won’t lose his access.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
He didn’t “access” anything, it was sent directly to him.
Traister101@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
But that obviously wouldn’t stop them from having him disappeared. Heck I don’t even think that’s off the table now
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Probably not, especially now that he’s leaking the previously undisclosed classified information (that the people involved insisted was not classified). But them’s the brakes when you’re a journalist.
echodot@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I think even the Trump administration is just about bright enough to realize that disappearing a top journalist wouldn’t go well for them. Especially if he never turned up again.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Remember when the Governor of Missouri tried to have a guy arrested for notifying the state of Missouri that they had a breach in one of the state websites, making peoples PII publicly visible?
That’s the kind of idiots you’re dealing with here. “We added you to a group chat by mistake and it’s all YOUR fault.”