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TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Mar. 26, 2025

Greetings! App of the week: Signal.  Quote of the week:  “That’s a lie,” Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg responded when asked to comment on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s assertion that no one was texting war plans…Breaking this morning: The Atlantic has released the full chat on Signal exposing Hegseth’s military plans. (AP)…A NY Post editorial has a rare rebuke to the Trump administration for its handling of the Signalgate fiasco. “You can only play the ‘diminish, deny and delay’ game so many times before it becomes your new brand,” the editors wrote. “We get that stepping up to own failures is hard. But it just got that much harder for Americans to trust the administration on national security issues going forward.” So far on the right, only Rupert Murdoch’s Post and the National Review have criticized the massive security breach…“French” lessons: NY Times columnist David French, a former U.S. Army attorney and self-described evangelical conservative,  urges Pete Hegseth to resign “if he has any honor at all” in a must-read op-ed…Popular podcaster and ex-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly announced yesterday that she’s creating her own audio  network.  Kelly is launching three shows this spring featuring Mark Halperin (who in 2017 faced allegations of sexual harassment from his stint at ABC News), the Daily Mail’s Maureen Callahan, and  ex-RFK Jr. advisor Link Lauren. My question: is Kelly entering an oversaturated podcast market a year late?…Dept. of Bad News:  The Third Term Project is an organization dedicated to keeping The Donald  in the White House beyond 2028. Our contributor Michael Lovito profiles Shane Trejo the GOP activist and Big League Politics commentator who is the force driving Third Term…If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard