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Mr. President, are you going to change any of the practices that your National Security officials used after a reporter was inadvertently added to a group chat about attacks on Yemen?
Well, I think it's a a question I've been asked now, and I've given it few answers, and they've all been the same. We have an amazing group; our national security now is stronger than it's ever been. We have uh had a very very successful numerous attacks on that area. These are people that shoot down ships, not only our ships, ships all over the world; they're shooting down right out of the water and damaging them badly, or they're going down. They're also shooting anything that happens to be flying in the area. We hit them very very hard. Uh, there was no classified information, as I understand it. Uh, they used a uh a uh app, if you want to call it an app, that a lot of people use, a lot of people in government use, a lot of people in the media use. And I think uh I'll ask Mike—Mike is here—do you want to respond to that, please?
Yes, Mr. President. You asked about lessons. I think there's a lot of the lessons; there's a lot of journalists in this city who have made big names for themselves making up lies about uh this President, whether it's the Russia hoax or making up lies about gold star families. And this one in particular, I've never met, don't know, never communicated with, and we are uh in we are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got into this room. But I'll tell you what, the world owes President Trump a favor. Under Biden, global shipping was shut down; pinprick attacks, months between them, are destroyers being fired upon dozens of times. President Trump took decisive act action with his National Security team, took out the head missier, knocked out missiles, knocked out headquarters, knocked out communication sites. And for once, as we hear as you will all hear from every one of our allies, thank God for American leadership again; thank God for American strength.
Uh, you're [Applause] welcome. Right. We had a national security team that was coordinating uh these efforts, as Director Radcliffe testified today—his first day on the job, he was introduced to this app on his government uh systems at the CIA and at the State Department and otherwise. So look, this journalist, Mr. President, uh wants the world talking about more hoaxes uh and this kind of nonsense rather than the freedom uh that you're enabling. And a key part of our sovereignty is open sea lanes and knocking the crap out of terrorists, which is exactly what your team and Pete Heg—a good friend and fellow veteran—is leading the charge on, and it's an honor. Very very successful. Excuse me, we had a very very successful evening, and we've had numerous successful evenings and days in that area. The hoodies are absolutely on the run; the worst of them have been uh killed. This should have been done a long time ago by Biden, but Biden was an incompetent president; he couldn't do anything; he would he didn't know where where he was going; he had no clue. This guy had no clue. This should have been done a long time ago, as they shoot missiles at ships, randomly shoot missiles at ships, and uh and they make their own missiles. You know, this is not an incompetent group of people; they make their own missiles; they get the missiles also from Iran. Uh, it's an offshoot of Iran; another offshoot, you have Hamas, you have Hezbollah, you have the hoodies; you got a lot of stuff going on with Iran. And we sent a letter to Iran: you're going to have to be speaking to us one way or the other pretty soon because we can't let this happen. But uh that's an app that a lot of people use, and somebody got on. I mean, happened to—no, the guy's a total sleazebag. The Atlantic, the Atlantic is a failed magazine; uh, it does very very poorly; nobody gives a damn about it. It gives this gives it a little bit of a a a shot. And I will tell you this, that uh they've made up more stories and uh and they're just a failing magazine; the public understands that. He's a very good man; that man is a very good man right there that you criticize, solely.