Busted! Trump’s Team Caught Lying About Texting War Plans

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Nobody's texting war plans. Nobody's texting war plans. I know exactly what I'm doing, exactly what we're directing. Jeffrey, let's get you to respond, if we could, to in real time, the White House press secretary, Karen Levitt, just posted. She, quote, she took a screenshot of the Atlantic headline, which reads, I will say again for the viewers,

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here are the attack plans that Trump advisors shared on Signal. She writes this. The Atlantic has conceded these were not, quote, war plans. The entire story was another hoax written by a Trump hater, yada, yada. So, Jeffrey, does this seem like they're parsing the difference between a war plan and an attack plan?

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I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS. I MEAN, THE PLAIN LANGUAGE IN THE TEXT IS, WHAT ARE THEY ARGUING, THAT AN ATTACK IS DIFFERENT THAN A WAR? THEY PUT OPERATIONAL DETAILS OF A FORTHCOMING ATTACK ON A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION INTO SIGNAL, INTO A SIGNAL CHAT THAT INCLUDED PHONE NUMBERS THAT THEY DIDN'T RECOGNIZE.