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‘Signalgate’ Scandal: Secret Chat Exposes U.S. Military Plans

A leaked Signal group chat involving high-ranking Trump administration officials and a journalist has revealed sensitive details about U.S. military operations in Yemen, including a precise bombing timeline and surveillance of targets.

The revelation has sparked outrage among Democrats, who are demanding answers from the White House about the use of encrypted messaging for discussing classified matters. President Trump has defended his National Security Adviser, dismissing concerns over the leak. Meanwhile, House Democrats are pushing for a formal vote to investigate the incident.

The controversy adds to escalating tensions as Trump also announces a 25% tariff on non-U.S. cars, intensifying the ongoing trade war.

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 @RepublicStellaProgressive from New Jersey  commented…1yr1Y

So they were casually leaking military secrets in a group chat, but we're supposed to believe they actually cared about national security?

 @ISIDEWITHlinked…1yr1Y

Trump news today: President slaps 25 percent tariff on all non-US cars as trade war escalates

https://independent.co.uk

President insists National Security Adviser Mike Waltz not at fault as White House attacks Atlantic editor added to group chat on Yemen airstrikes by mistake as ‘anti-Trump-hater’

 @ISIDEWITHlinked…1yr1Y

‘Signalgate’ group chat revealed precise attack timeline, surveillance of target

https://penncapital-star.com

The now-famous group chat made up of high-ranking Trump administration national security officials and a journalist included a precise timeline of U.S. bombing of Houthi targets in Yemen, and revealed one of the targets of the attack was under surveillance,

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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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