Hillary Clinton found herself in surprising agreement with Piers Morgan on Wednesday amid intensifying “Signal-gate” discussions as she blasted the Trump administration for “hypocrisy.”
In a tweet, Morgan, a conservative British TV news pundit who occasionally dips into American affairs, rebuked those “too partisan” to hold the Trump administration accountable for the controversial Signal airstrike leak and claimed the conversation was clearly classified, despite officials repeatedly denying so. Moreover, he suggested Republicans would have been even less forgiving if it had happened under the watch of a Democratic president.
“If you don’t consider this to be classified info about imminent war plans, it *may* be that you’re too partisan to recognise the truth when it slaps you around your tribal chops,” wrote Morgan. He added, “If this had happened on Biden’s watch, Republicans would have rightly gone berserk.”
Clinton co-signed his take with a tweet of her own, writing, “Never thought I’d be retweeting Piers Morgan, but he’s right!”
Morgan has taken multiple jabs at Clinton in the past. In 2023, the Piers Morgan Uncensored host labeled Clinton as “a very unpopular candidate” on Fox News and in a 2017 editorial in the Daily Mail, labeled her latest book, What Happened, as “the most whiny, self-pitying, deluded load of literary claptrap written since Kim Kardashian’s ‘I was empowering women’ defense for posting naked bird-flipping selfies.”
On Wednesday, following up Clinton’s response, Morgan cheekily responded: “Do you know much about classified info breaches?”
Piers then screengrabbed the post on his Instagram account and captioned it: “Finally, Hillary smashes a glass ceiling...”
On his Uncensored show, Morgan referenced Clinton in his monologue referring to the fact that “bundling of sensitive information by top officials is sadly nothing new.”
Morgan demanded of the Signal saga: “For the first time in his second presidency, it’s time for Trump to wield his formidable index finger and use the words that made him world-famous…‘You’re fired.‘”
Clinton has taken an unofficial victory lap of sorts since The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he was included on a sensitive national security message exchange on Signal that discussed airstrikes in Yemen. The group reportedly also included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Middle East and Ukraine negotiator Steve Witkoff, and national security adviser Mike Waltz.
Waltz was scapegoated as the “f---ing idiot” responsible for the flub, but Clinton roasted Hegseth and the lackeys for lacking competence.
“The hypocrisy is staggering, but worse, the arrogance and incompetence puts the lives of our military men and women in danger,” Clinton, a former secretary of state, told Glamour on Wednesday.
Hegseth particularly was viewed as hypocritical after he previously, and methodically, used his perch as a Fox News host in 2016 to attack Clinton for reports that she was using a private email server for official business.
At the time, Hegseth suggested that Clinton should have been “fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted,” reported AP. Yet she was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing using the email server, and avoided any intelligence leaks on her watch.
In her first message addressing Hegseth’s defense leak debacle, Clinton seemed to have the perfect tweet ready in the chamber, writing: “You have got to be kidding me,” she wrote alongside a side-eye emoji.
