Hillary Clinton trolled the Trump administration Monday after The Atlantic's editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally added to a group chat of top Trump administration figures discussing attacking the Iranian-backed Houthis.
'You have got to be kidding me,' Clinton wrote, using the giant eyes emoji and sharing Jeffrey Goldberg's Atlantic story.
The group chat, using the encrypted app Signal, was started by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President J.D. Vance.
Those officials may have violated the Presidential Records Act, which requires presidential records to be preserved.
Signal automatically deletes messages after a period of time.
Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign was derailed in part due to her decision to use a private email server while serving as President Barack Obama's Secretary of State.
Her rival, the current President Donald Trump, consistently attacked Clinton over using the unsecured server, with his crowds chanting, 'lock her up!'
Now nine years later and just a month and four days into Trump's second term, there are calls for firings of some of these officials from Democrats in disbelief that classified information was being discussed on the app.
Hillary Clinton trolled the Trump administration Monday after The Atlantic's editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally added to a group chat of top Trump administration figures discussing attacking the Iranian-backed Huthis
Hillary Clinton wrote 'you have got to be kidding me,' in a post that quickly went viral. During her 2016 campaign her choice to use a private email server while serving as secretary of State became a major campaign headache and helped President Donald Trump win
'Really dumb and epically irresponsible. People need to lose their jobs over this. Preferably Hegseth,' commented Democratic New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim.
Goldberg didn't quote one of Hegseth's longer messages to the group, fearing the information contained could hurt U.S. troops.
'What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,' the journalist instead wrote.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat, also took aim at Hegseth.
During an appearance on CNN Monday night, Gallego pointed out that in any other administration the president would have made the Pentagon chief resign.
'The Secretary of Defense was unqualified to begin with and now he's actually proven himself,' Gallego said.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth reposted Fox News' Brit Hume's reaction to Hegseth arriving in Hawaii and calling Goldberg 'deceitful and highly discredited.'
'Oh for God's sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message,' Hume wrote.
Several Democrats have called on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left) to resign after the Signal group was exposed Monday, however Politico reported Monday night that the most endangered Trump official appeared to be National Security Advisor Michael Waltz
Politico reported Monday night that Waltz, who created the group chat and invited Goldberg to join, was currently the most endangered Trump official involved in the brewing scandal.
'Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a f***ing idiot,' one 'person close to the White House' was quoted as saying.
Waltz, who previously worked for former Vice President Dick Cheney, a Republican, has been viewed skeptically by MAGA diehards for his former neo-conservative ties.
Politico reported that Waltz had spoken to Trump - who denied knowing about the story when asked about it Monday afternoon at an event featuring Lousiana's governor.
If Waltz is let go, he will have made it more than a month longer than the first national security adviser Trump selected for his first term - Michael Flynn.
Flynn resigned on February 13, 2017 after it came out that he misled then Vice President Mike Pence on conversations he had with the Russians.