{"id":7697,"date":"2025-03-26T16:01:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/signalgate-has-made-its-way-into-democratic-fundraising-emails\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:01:29","slug":"signalgate-has-made-its-way-into-democratic-fundraising-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/signalgate-has-made-its-way-into-democratic-fundraising-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Signalgate has made its way into Democratic fundraising emails"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Top Democrats are seizing on Signalgate in campaign fundraising appeals \u2014 highlighting how the party hopes the fallout of the national security issue can resonate beyond Washington.<\/p>\n

The news that top Trump administration officials discussed a planned attack on Houthi rebels in a Signal chat that accidentally included an Atlantic journalist has rocked national security circles, with some top Democrats calling for the resignations of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a> and national security adviser Mike Waltz.<\/p>\n

Democrats have pointed to the sequence of events as an example of the Trump administration\u2019s incompetence \u2014 and the potential consequences for the military and broader U.S. security \u2014 but it is less clear how the issue will resonate beyond Washington<\/a>. The new fundraising messages indicate Democrats believe it will at least energize its base of online donors.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you feel safe under the Trump administration?\u201d asked an email from the campaign of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Tuesday, which featured the headline of The Atlantic article and called it one of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cmost egregious and dangerous actions yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is amateur hour. We\u2019re damn lucky the pilots on that mission and the sailors and marines on ships offshore didn\u2019t make the ultimate sacrifice that day. The Trump Administration\u2019s carelessness and incompetence put their lives at risk,\u201d said a Tuesday email from the campaign of Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), which included a link to a petition calling on Hegseth to resign.<\/p>\n

An email from Justice Democrats, a progressive group, said the Trump administration was \u201cout here talking about unconstitutional war plans via a texting app called Signal\u201d while criticizing the strikes on Yemen and Trump\u2019s broader agenda.<\/p>\n

The White House acknowledged this week that the texts were legitimate but has largely defended the officials involved in the group chat.<\/p>\n

The real enemy? The Atlantic journalist who published the story, whom Waltz called \u201cthe bottom scum of journalists\u201d in an interview on Fox News<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top Democrats are seizing on Signalgate in campaign fundraising appeals \u2014 highlighting how the party hopes the fallout of the national security issue can resonate beyond Washington. The news that top Trump administration officials discussed a planned attack on Houthi rebels in a Signal chat that accidentally included an Atlantic journalist has rocked national security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}