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Donald Trump was stunned into silence this morning. Usually we'll see him posting over and over again on his social media platform or sending emails to his supporters. No such post this morning. The last post was about 14 hours ago. This as more information was released by the Atlantic about the leak of war plans on a Signal Group thread where the top Department of Defense officials, top national security officials, top military officials, top Trump officials were sending each other emojis as they put actual war plans in the messages. Highly classified information. Yesterday of course you had Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, head of the CIA and others say there was no war plans, no attack plans, nothing classified. The Atlantic released more and you can see right here that Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary, put the exact sequencing of the entire operation and the types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place, putting the lives of our fighter pilots and other assets at risk. Details like this, as Sabrina Singh say, are highly classified. Just take a look at what Hegseth posted. Team Update time now 1144. Weather is favorable. Just confirmed with CENTCOM. We are a go for mission launch 1215 Eastern Time F18 launch first strike package 1345 trigger base F18 first strike window starts. Target terrorist is at his known location so should be on time. Also strike drones launch MQ9 more F18s launch at 14:10, 14:15 will do strike Joe strike drones on target. This is when the first bombs will definitely drop pending earlier trigger based targets. At 15:36 the F18 second strike starts. Also first sea based Tomahawks are launched. So now that this has been released because that piece was not released yesterday. So the Trump regime went out and they were like denying, denying, denying or saying nothing was classified even though what was already released was classified. And then the Atlantic drop that it also just shows how just reckless and negligent the Trump regime is even at the COVID up itself. So now what the Department of Defense is going with is that look the Atlantic is backpedaling because the title of the Atlantic article from this morning about those new messages I just shared with you are Here are the attack plans that Trump adviser shared on Signal. The administration has downplayed the importance of of the text messages inadvertently sent to the Atlantic's editor in chief. So the Department of Defense is going, aha. The, the, their, the Atlantic is now saying that these are attack plans and not war plans. So clearly they're not war plans. Look, the Atlantic is taking it all back as our editor in chief Ron Philip Koski goes this is really the lame ass defense that the Trump regime is going with, that they were attack plans and not war plans. And then all these MAGA influencers are doing that as well. They're highlighting the part of the Atlantic headline that says attack plans. Like Sean Parnell goes, it's no surprise the hoax peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned their war plans. Claim these additional signal chat messages confirm there were no classified materials or war plan shared. The Secretary was merely updating the group on the planet that says classified of information as you can get. So then Tulsi Gabbard moments ago as again Trump was in silence Tulsi Gabber testifying before the House Intelligence Committee and now she's backpedaling and kind of throwing Hegseth under the bus because yesterday she said there was no classified information, no attack plans, it was just basic communication, which it wasn't what we saw yesterday. So here's what she's going with now watch as she throws others under the bus.