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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Mary Papenfuss

Wall Street Journal lashes ‘bully’ Trump over broken-record ‘fake news’ excuses

President Donald Trump - (AFP via Getty Images)

The Wall Street Journal let “bully” Donald Trump have it in a flaming editorial over the Signal chat security bungle, saying he can’t simply blame the “fake news” every time something goes wrong in his administration.

Trump first blamed an unnamed “lower level” staffer for inadvertently including The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldfarb, in a high-level group chat on specific bombing plans in Yemen earlier this month on Signal, an encryption messaging app available to the public.

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