Ramesh #NotGoingBack: "⬆️ @karaswisher >> So smart …" - Mastodon

Kara Swisher @karaswisher@threads.net

So smart https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-scandals-and-one-fascinating-political-insight-of-signalgate

The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself

Doomsday ScenarioThe Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of SignalgateThe Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself

Ramesh #NotGoingBack @rameshgupta@mastodon.social

>> So smart

#PowerDynamics in the #TrumpAdministration — #Trump and #Vance appear powerless, as #StephenMiller emerges as the locus of power

…none of the senior officials seemed all that clear about what Donald Trump himself had wanted. The subsequent leaks of the full conversation only underscore how Stephen Miller — who, mind you, is not a national security official who would be normally involved in a military strike overseas — is the one who shuts down the debate over whether the action moves ahead… Is Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, really not in a position to interpret the president’s own orders when it comes to military actions? … Nor one where the president is sweating committing US lives to action or taking lives overseas.
Then we get to another part of the power dynamics we’re learning from the chat: JD Vance is powerless. Any other vice president in the last half-century could have and absolutely would have gotten the national security advisor immediately fired over this scandal. Let’s summarize it as such: The national security advisor accidentally included a top journalist in an exclusive backroom chat of the administration’s senior-most officials, where the vice president expressed his private disagreement with the president’s public policy decisions. How on earth can JD Vance let that stand?
The answer appears to be, simply: He doesn’t have the juice to get Waltz, who he doesn’t like in the first place, fired. … The fact that Mike Waltz is still standing as the scandal enters day three shows us JD Vance is the weakest vice president we’ve had in decades.

Mar 28, 2025, 09:54 AM·

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