War plans group chat scandal fits pattern of Trump's embarrassing weakness on information security

The Rachel Maddow Show

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4.5 • 34K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Rachel Maddow looks at Donald Trump's ridiculously poor track record of mishandling sensitive information, with the scandal of several of his top officials thoughtlessly discussing military plans in an insecure group text raising questions of criminality on top of the widespread outrage over the sheer sloppiness of their actions.

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0:00.0	Thanks you at home for joining us this hour.
0:01.7	Really happy to have you here.
0:02.8	This was Philadelphia today, a protest to defend the EPA.
0:07.9	Honk if you love clean water.
0:10.9	This was Duluth, Minnesota today, another big turnout of people protesting to stand up for the EPA.
0:17.8	This was Chicago, Illinois today.
0:20.2	More people out defending the EPA. It was a big protest
0:23.5	today in Chicago. Good signs. Lots of people. It was a picket and a protest. This sign says,
0:30.2	factories today emit 1,500,000 tons less toxic air pollution than in 1990. Protect EPA workers. Protect your family's health.
0:42.9	I don't know who this person is at the Chicago protest, but may I commend you on excellent
0:47.8	punctuation and grammar on that perfectly spelled sign. It's all perfect. A plus.
0:55.0	Also a very good point.
0:57.4	This was Washington, D.C. today, yet more people coming out to defend the U.S. Post Office.
1:03.4	We saw a bunch of protests people defending the post office last week.
1:06.7	Then we saw just a huge number of protests for the post office this weekend.
1:10.5	Now, today in Washington, D.C., people came out to say hands off the post office.
1:15.3	USPS belongs to us.
1:18.9	This protest was based around rural letter carriers, people who deliver the mail in rural America.
1:24.9	You see that the signs there at the protest today in Washington. Rural America
1:28.8	relies on the postal service. Also a good point, and very true. If Donald Trump is going to
1:37.8	abolish, effectively abolish the post office like he says he wants to or privatize it like Elon
1:43.1	Musk says he wants to,
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