Brit Hume Nails Trump Administration For Scandal ‘Mess’ | EUROtoday

Longtime Fox News analyst Brit Hume mentioned President Donald Trump and the remainder of his administration are “making a mess” with their botched response to the scandal during which a journalist was unintentionally given entry to a bunch chat with extremely delicate navy info.

“All that has done is prolong the story,” he wrote on X.

National safety adviser Michael Waltz reportedly added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg accidentally to a bunch chat dialogue of plans for navy motion in Yemen and different extraordinarily delicate issues.

The chat additionally included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, amongst others.

Goldberg described the main points within the group chat as “war plans,” however Hegseth and others have tried to argue semantics, saying these particulars don’t rely as “war plans.”

Hume mentioned they’re lacking the purpose.

He wrote that there are two “iron rules” for how you can deal with a scandal like this. First, get the details out and take accountability. And second, don’t feed the story.

“The administration is making a mess of rule two by getting bogged down in a dispute over whether the details of Yemen bombing raids were a war plan and whether those details were, or should have been, classified,” he wrote.

Hegseth and others within the administration have additionally responded by attacking Goldberg.

Hume mentioned that’s one other mistake.

“Look, I’m not a particular fan of Goldberg or of his magazine,” Hume mentioned in an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Bret Baier. “But he didn’t do anything wrong here.”

Hume mentioned Goldberg was added to the chat “passively” and overlooked lots of the particulars in his preliminary report.

“So, then they attacked him, and said that he wasn’t telling the truth about it, which just gave him a reason to release the details as he did this morning,” he mentioned, referring to a extra detailed report The Atlantic launched on Wednesday in response to the Trump administration’s assaults on Goldberg and the journal.

Despite that, Hume mentioned he didn’t suppose anybody within the administration would lose their job over the scandal.

“The fact of the matter is, that although this looks pretty bad, and it should never have happened, and the information probably should’ve been classified, and all the rest of it, the fact is, it did not fall into hostile foreign hands, the mission went off successfully, so it did not turn out to be harmful in any meaningful way,” he mentioned. “It just looks bad.”

See extra of his dialogue with Baier beneath: