Everyday feels like an episode of Jerry Springer when Trump is in charge

Today’s scandal is about Leaked information

Here is what happened:

Senior Trump officials were using a known non-secure phone app to discuss a military strike.

The use of this app…Signal…has one single advantage, it is secured in a way that your conversations on it cannot be collected as they should be by law.  In other words, you can talk about stuff and then later deny it because no one has access to it…unless you are a Russian hacker who is known to have breached the app’s security

An American journalist was somehow added to the chat, including things like weapons and the timing of a pending attack.  It also included trash talk about our European allies.

Trump’s CIA, Intelligence, and military top officials claimed nothing classified was on the chat. This allowed the journalist to safely publish the chat which clearly showed it was All about classified information

My problems with this:

1. Don’t use chat because your official conversations belong to the public and the public can’t get them from Signal
2. Don’t lie to Congress and say “There was no classified information” because there was.
3. Trump, faced with one of the largest scandals of his career said something like, “I don’t even know what you’re talking about, and if I did it was no big deal.”
4. The overall ineptness and lying are standard fare for Trump.  Our Ex-European allies have taken notice of this and are no longer willing to share some sensitive information with us simply because They No Longer Trust Us.

Trump, when finally cornered said, “This was the first minor slip-up in an otherwise perfect first 2 months of my administration.”  In response to this Rachael Maddow lists how the first two months were “not quite perfect.”