’ve just got to Washington, DC. Honestly, it’s exciting to be here in the midst of a crisis, although it’s such a crisis that meetings are being rescheduled left, right and center, which is vaguely irritating.

I’m hearing that, behind the facade, there is some nervousness about the fates of Pete Hegseth, who landed back in DC early this morning, and Mike Waltz. Probably, they survive, is the thinking…But even the most die-hard Trump loyalist knows that “SignalGate” was a very stupid own goal.

You also may recall that I’ve written here before that I am myself part of a group chat of what appears to be right-wing military types and I have no idea if any of them knows that I am on it.

Even some of them threw their hands in the air at the stupidity of it all.

“It was a crazy unforced error” someone posted, followed by the image I’ve reposted above.

There was also a fair degree of mirth.

“He’s running a more fun chat group than we are!” said one wag.

Another: “How can one get added?”

And: “It’s outrageous. They should have added XXX XXXX [our chat name] to this Signal Group!!!”

One (albeit very minor) aspect of the real group chat fiasco that seems to be under-reported is the remarkable flat-line temperament of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic who was accidentally added to the Signal group chat. I get that when Goldberg first saw he’d been invited, his instinct was to think, Ha ha I’m being played…But ask yourself this:

If you’d been added to it, and if, as the days went by and the thread gathered momentum, and, you began to realize that the chat may very well not be a hoax, AND that, on Saturday morning you were alerted to the strong possibility there could be a drone strike on the Houthis in two hours…would you have done what Goldberg apparently did when reading the strike was imminent and wait in his car in a supermarket parking lot?

Read on at Vicky Ward Investigates