J.D. Vance's 'absolutely classified' Signal comment a bigger deal than attack plan: expert
Vice President J.D. Vance revealed something in the now-infamous Trump administration Signal chat is a bigger deal than the attack plans put forth by Pete Hegseth, according to an expert analyst.
Marc Polymeropoulos, a retired CIA official with 26 years in the agency behind him, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was asked about the Signal scandal. He claimed that the unsecured chat leak was only part of why people in the Pentagon are tiring of Hegseth's behavior.
Polymeropoulos was further asked about reports that Republicans are enraged at Vance, because he purportedly dropped GOP jaws when he sought to "block an order from Trump."
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Polymeropoulos was asked if this was part of a "growing rift" among Republicans, and he said that this portion of the Signal leak with Vance was more revelatory than the attack plans themselves.
"What was really interesting to me on the Signal chat was not the tactical military planning, which is really bad, of course, that was classified information that could have gotten U.S. pilots hurt, but it was the policy discussions, which, by the way, also are absolutely classified," he said. "The policy discussions were really interesting because Vance seems to be kind of pursuing what we know to be more of an isolationist bent. You know, he certainly has this kind of pathological hatred of Europe. But there did seem to be policy divisions. And so that kind of spilled out in public."
The security expert then added, "And I think, you know, President Trump probably does not like that. And that's, I think, reflective of some of the Republican allies being being critical of the vice president."