Now What?

 So, the DOJ tells Boasberg information about the planes that took deportees to El Salvador is a matter of national security and cannot be revealed. 

Six hours prior to that filing, Trump and, separately, Rubio, posted information publicly about the planes, including the tail numbers. This is in the court record.

Now Trump is obsessing over media coverage of Signalgate, trying to decide if any heads must roll, and whose. Clearly that problem starts at the very top, with Trump denying he knew this happened when he was asked about it:

Sure, this is almost certainly a lie. Goldberg says he told the White House about it at 9AM yesterday morning.

But now that Trump has told the lie, he has also claimed that after his entire national security team learned that a journalist may have witnessed them engage in behavior that might violate the Espionage Act, none of them told him — not JD Vance, not Mike Waltz, not Susie Wiles, not the NSC spox who gave on the record confirmation that the thread was authentic — none of them alerted Trump to the breach. Trump would further have you believe that none of them told him — not JD Vance, not Mike Waltz, not Susie Wiles, not the NSC spox who gave on the record confirmation that the thread was authentic — that an incredibly damaging story was about to drop.

If that were true it would mean Trump could trust no one to keep him informed of the most basic things. It would mean his entire national security team fucked up and kept it a secret from him.

An entirely plausible conclusion. But let’s play the Beltway game of who draws the black bean. Because facing the reality of how absolutely incompetent the administration is, and there’s literally nothing to be done about it until 2028, is too much to contemplate.