cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29486510
Jason Paladino
May 02, 2025“During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages.”
Trump dances to Putin’s tune because he’s a fanboi who loves Russia and authoritarianism. He doesn’t need kompromat to betray the US; he’s happy to do it.
I subscribe to this belief too. There’s no way in hell that an experienced spy like Putin would have any trouble manipulating the easiest to manipulate person on the planet (literally just flatter him). Plus, Putin is exactly the kind of guy who Trump wants to emulate, so he naturally looks up to him.