Hillary Clinton Calls Out ‘Staggering’ GOP Hypocrisy Over Signal Scandal

Hillary Clinton shredded Republicans on Wednesday for downplaying senior Trump officials’ use of third-party messaging app Signal to text about national security matters — in a group chat that included a journalist.

“The hypocrisy is staggering,” said Clinton — the subject of intense GOP criticism over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state — in a statement shared with Glamour magazine.

The ex-Democratic presidential candidate continued, “But worse, the arrogance and incompetence puts the lives of our military men and women in danger.”

Her comments came as the Trump administration scrambles for answers to a scandal that’s led to “exploding” heads in the security and intelligence community.

On Wednesday, the White House picked apart the choice of words in the headline by The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently added to the Trump officials’ group chat earlier this month.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — who shared U.S. plans to strike Yemen in the group chat — dismissed the publication sharing “so-called ‘war plans’” on Wednesday. President Donald Trump, in comments to reporters, suggested that continued coverage of the scandal was part of a “witch hunt.”

Clinton also took to social media on Wednesday to agree with controversial talk show host Piers Morgan after he ripped those downplaying the “classified” nature of the plans shared by Hegseth.

“If this had happened on Biden’s watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk,” wrote Morgan on X, formerly Twitter.

Clinton added, “Never thought I’d be retweeting Piers Morgan, but he’s right!”

On Monday, Clinton briefly summed up her thoughts with a post linking to Goldberg’s initial report on the chat: ” You have got to be kidding me.”

Critics have called out Trump administration officials for their hypocrisy in recent days, pointing to their past comments on Clinton’s use of a private email server for official government business.

“If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now,” Hegseth once said in a 2016 segment during his time as a host on Fox News.

Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz, who Goldberg said added him to the chat, in 2023 suggested that Clinton and then-President Joe Biden should be criminally charged for mishandling classified documents.

“When you have the Clinton emails … on top of the fact that the sitting President of the United States admitted he had documents in his garage … But they didn’t prosecute, they didn’t go after these folks,” Waltz told CNN at the time.