'Simply not going away': MSNBC host points to growing revolt confronting Trump
Despite protestations from high-ranking Donald Trump officials that the Signal chat scandal that has engulfed the administration is much ado about nothing, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire noted new polling that the president is facing a growing revolt over it among GOP voters.
Yesterday Attorney General Pam Bondi blew off questions about the security breach which has cast a dark cloud over the immediate futures of national security advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and instead deflected to attacking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
On Friday's "Morning Joe," Lemire shared the clip of Bondi's press conference and followed it by commenting, "That's not great."
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He then explained why.
"Despite her bravado there, new polling shows Americans see the incident more concerning than her emails, i.e. the Clinton email server," he began. "A new YouGov poll finds that three out of four Americans believe the Signal chat about strikes in Yemen is a serious problem. That includes 53 percent who called it very serious, and another 21 percent who said it was somewhat serious."
"When broken down by party, 89 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents and, look at this: 60 percent of Republicans believe the situation is a serious problem," he added. "And of note, a higher share of adults said the Signal chat was indeed more serious than Hillary Clinton's personal email use. A YouGov poll from September 2022 found that about three out of five Americans viewed that controversy as a serious problem. and, Joe [Scarborough], the White House is aware of this. "
"Our new reporting out last night is President Trump privately still very angry about this, but what a distraction it's become," Lemire told the panel. "He can't talk about what he wants to talk about: tariffs, immigration the like at the moment. Signals from the White House are no heads will roll, but there's a lot of scrutiny on both the secretary of defense and especially the national security adviser about how they handled this. And this is a story that is simply not going away, and that, poll suggests, has really permeated both sides of the aisle."
"Not great," co-host Scarborough repeated while he and the rest of the panel laughed.
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