Signal chat group members partied at $1 million-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner after Yemen bombings: Report

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 26 March 2025 01:49 EDT


Members of a Trump administration chat group which apparently inadvertently leaked U.S. military operations in Yemen to a journalist reportedly partied with the president at a $1-million-a-seat fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago after the plotted bombings took place.

Hours after the alarming breach of national security involving the journalist, and the fatal bombings in Yemen, which both took place March 15, several members of the Signal chat group attended the “candlelight fundraising dinner,” Wired reported. Some 53 people, including children, were killed in the attacks on Yemen.

The dinner event included guests who had been on the chat earlier before the bombings: National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, according to Wired. Others apparently included were Trump’s Middle East and Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Wired reported. Elon Musk and his 4-year-old son also attended.

No one apparently yet knew that the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg had been secretly in on the Signal group call after he was apparently inadvertently added by one of the participants. The call included multiple senior officials, incuding JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/yemen-group-chat-mar-a-lago-dinner-b2721574.html

[Lovie777]

1. And they partied.......................

[Deuxcents]

2. WTF🤬

[democrank]

3. Happy-Go-Lucky POS gathering

Kill people, raise a little cash, have some shrimp.

[raccoon]

4. Is it surprising to any thinking person that people such as the citizens of Yemen hate the USA?

[AmericaUnderSiege]

5. Suggested language: Instead of Mar-a-Lago, "Trump cult compound."

Just seems to pop more. And is more relevantly descriptive.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Why is a 4 year old at an evening candle light dinner?

[Raven]

7. I think he was joining the other overgrown 4 year olds at the party.

[Irish_Dem]

9. The toddler is more mature than trump and his idiots.

[travelingthrulife]

22. Human shield.

[Irish_Dem]

24. I wonder if he wired up the kid to record everything.

Plenty of blackmail material.

[tanyev]

8. Celebrating their "success" with $1 million dollar tough steak and ketchup. Yum.

[Prairie Gates]

10. Lost in all this is that the Yemen apartment building bombing was an awful act

Prayer emoji prayer emoji fist bump emoji.

They killed 50 people, including children, prayer emoji prayer emoji.

[Butterflylady]

17. Yep, there's nothing like killing a lot of innocent people, then going....

To a flashy party.......

[PhylliPretzel]

18. In addition

to those 50+ people (including children) being killed, the residents of that apartment building have been rendered homeless with most of their worldly possessions destroyed. I have never heard that mentioned in a news report, yet it disturbs me greatly.

[raccoon]

19. Well, it doesn't count unless it's American citizens in a terrorist attack on the USA. :sarcasm:

[Prairie Gates]

21. When Reagan bombed Libya in the 1980s

It was the main news story for weeks, with quite a bit of concern over the civilians who had been killed, including Qaddafi's young daughter (who was 4 or 5). Now we routinely bomb apartment complexes to get one guy and nobody bats an eye and it is all forgotten in a week. Had it not been for the imbecile sharing of this bombing raid, hardly anyone in the US would remember it even a few weeks later.

In this sense, JD Vance was the most out-of-touch person on the Houthi PC Small Group chat thread. He thought there would have to be "messaging," that the US public would somehow have to be "prepared" to accept the bombing raid on an apartment building that would kill dozens. It turned out, Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth were far more in touch with the callous disregard of the American public: nobody even cared.

What if the real crime was not adding a journalist to a classified discussion or using a soft app and private phones to share classified information, but rather bombing an apartment building full of civilians.

[Woodycall]

12. As one normally would...

[EarthFirst]

13. With such a cavalier attitude towards national security via Slack...

…you can be damned sure $1 million per plate will allow access to information that otherwise should follow national security protocols.

[twodogsbarking]

14. They were not rolling joints in classified documents.

[LymphocyteLover]

15. sick stupid fucks

[chowder66]

16. No wonder they "couldn't recall".

[neohippie]

20. Where is the outrage by the GOP over selling access to the President

Remember when they investigated the Bidens for years for selling access to the President, well Trump has been selling million dollar tickets for candlelight dinners since he was re-elected and is continuing to do this while in office where are the investigations where is their outrage over this

[travelingthrulife]

23. When the "right" President does it it is legal.

[Walleye]

28. Yep, they still say Hunter was "influence peddling"

[FakeNoose]

25. We can be certain that THEY didn't pay $1 million-a-plate

It's the ultra-wealthy MAGAs that pony up for the opportunity to hang out at Mar-A-Lago
with Chump and his usual gang of idiots.

[BigMin28]

26. We the taxpayers

Ended up footing the bill, I'm sure. That is Dipshit Donnie's specialty.

[Onthefly]

27. MALevolent attendees:

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.