Staff Reports
Senator Mark Warner, the pride of Virginia’s Democratic delegation, seems to have taken a page right out of the hypocrisy handbook. In a recent display of selective outrage, Warner decided to roast President Trump’s national security team over a technological slip-up involving a journalist who somehow found his way into a top-secret group chat discussing military operations. This might be rich coming from a man who has teamed up with a lobbyist tied to a Russian oligarch and then practiced the art of hiding his own communications.
During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, Warner turned his attention to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others, expressing dismay after an article surfaced detailing how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg found himself accidentally included in an encrypted conversation about military strikes. It’s a scandal that exploded on the scene, but Warner’s indignation feels eerily misplaced when cast against his own questionable past involving classified information.
Goldberg, of course, is no stranger to controversy, having previously authored dubious claims about Trump referring to American service members in derogatory terms. The latest incident unfolded when National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly included him in a Signal group chat filled with military bigwigs, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and others, just days before actual military action took place in Yemen. It’s almost as if these people were too busy planning defenses to worry about whether they hit “reply all” on the wrong thread.
I will just leave this right here…👇🤨
Sen. Warner’s Hypocrisy: Slams Trump Team for Using Signal After His Own Secret Messages Exposed https://t.co/96AFJ9qc9r via @BreitbartNews
— GreatGranny InGeorgia (@GreatgrannyI) March 26, 2025
To add a cherry on top of Warner’s melodrama, he clung tightly to the idea that the communication system used—Signal—was an “unclassified” platform for sharing “classified” information. Perhaps he’s unaware that this accusation feels a tad hollow when the ghost of his own communication scandal from 2018 lurks in the shadows. During his efforts to investigate the unfounded Trump-Russia collusion narrative, Warner found himself exchanging messages with none other than a lobbyist for a Russian billionaire. Perhaps he could use a reminder that transparency starts at home.
Screenshots of Warner’s messages, which Fox News unearthed, show him desperately trying to connect with Adam Waldman, who had direct ties to the infamous anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele. The senator even had the good sense to want to keep things off the record, pleading that he “would rather not have a paper trail.” This self-serving behavior makes his current demands for accountability from Trump’s defense team look more like the antics of a toddler who was caught with their hand in the cookie jar instead of a skirmish against legitimate threats to national security.
While Warner unleashes his faux outrage and demands resignations from Hegseth and Waltz, one has to chuckle at the sheer audacity. Critics have pointed out that instead of focusing on the alleged gaffes of others, perhaps Warner should examine his own history. His cry of hypocrisy has not gone unnoticed by those on social media, who are perfectly willing to remind him of his capability for double standards. All in all, the senator must recognize that in Washington’s game of blame and hypocrisy, the pot isn’t merely calling the kettle black; it’s mirroring its own flaws.
