White House communications director claims Signal scandal is a "witch hunt" against Trump
From CNN's Kit Maher
The White House on Tuesday afternoon escalated its rhetoric against The Atlantic story, pointing to “faux outrage” and calling it a “witch hunt,” according to the president’s communications director and assistant.
Steven Cheung claimed in a pair of X posts that “anti-Trump” forces have consistently been at work trying to “weaponize innocuous actions” and equated the news outlets covering the story to “enemies of America.”
“The Atlantic story is nothing more than a section of the NatSec establishment community running the same, tired gameplay from years past. From the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax of the first term to the fake documents case of the last four years … at every turn anti-Trump forces have tried to weaponize innocuous actions and turn them into faux outrage that Fake News outlets can use to peddle misinformation. Don’t let enemies of America get away with these lies,” Cheung posted on X.
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg has said he was invited into the chat by Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz.
In a second post on Tuesday, Cheung pointed to what he called the “Signal hoax outrage” and a “witch hunt.”
“‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax led to a witch hunt. Documents hoax led to a witch hunt. Signal hoax outrage… a witch hunt,” he wrote.
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