I can see Democrats in the wake of the Signal national security group chat fiasco, heard from here to Yemen, smugly folding their arms and snickering about incompetence and imbecility in the Trump administration.

It's a tempting, even understandable, reaction. A sloppy mistake regarding important national security issues is disappointing,

Republicans must do better. National security issues must be handled with utmost care. But the story seems sensationalized and shows once again Democrats' and the news media's partisan disdain for President Donald Trump and his team.

Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed Monday that he had been mistakenly added to a group chat that included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard. The top Trump administration officials discussed in the chat what Goldberg described as war plans.

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