'A large bucket of stupid': Ex-GOP lawmaker hammers Fox News host's Signal chat comments
After watching a clip of a popular Fox News host attempt to blow off the "Signalgate" scandal currently afflicting Donald Trump's administration, a former Republican member of the House brutally ripped the excuses apart.
Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," ex-Rep Denver Riggleman (R-VA) took his cue from co-host Michael Steele who referred to Fox host Jesse Watter's comments about Trump officials exposing war planning details to a journalist as a "bucket of stupid."
In the clip from Wednesday Watters complained, "No one outside of D.C. and in the news business really cares about this story. There's no video. There's no sex. there's no fraud –– no one even knows what a Houthi is!"
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"What say you, Denver?" Steele prompted his guest. "You know, you were an officer in our military. You served in very secret places. You served in Congress. You know what that chat was and what that chat wasn't."
That led Riggleman to smirk, "Thanks for that, Michael and everybody. That's a large bucket of stupid to navigate, so I appreciate that."
"When you're looking at when he says nothing outside of the Beltway, nobody cares outside the Beltway, there's a lot of military bases outside the Beltway. And when you are a former military officer, and you also did air operations, and you were in 9/11 and Operation Allied Force, and you know what those things were on those Signal chat, you start to get this idea that maybe they've made these mistakes in the past and they're going to make them in the future."
"Let me give you an example," he elaborated. "Everybody's time over target ––that's classified. The airframes that are actually going into that area? That's classified. The specific targets? That's classified."
"All I hear is what a bunch of idiots this crew is," he later added.
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