A Member of the Trump Admin Signal Chat Was in Russia

Flight data shows that a member of the Trump administration's Signal chat was added to the chat while in Russia after hyping the "friendship" between Trump and Putin.

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Hours after the Trump administration defended the indefensible use of Signal for war plans, a CBS report revealed, “As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia.”

Yes, this is yet another Russia narrative swirling around Donald Trump’s presidency, and at this point should be raising serious questions about his loyalties.

“President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials — and inadvertently, one journalist — on the messaging app Signal, a CBS News analysis of open-source flight information and Russian media reporting has revealed,” CBS reported.

Witkoff had arrived in Moscow “shortly after noon local time on March 13, according to data from the f…