Dave Portnoy eviscerates Trump White House over Signal leak: Fk up of epic proportions

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy didn’t mince words about the Trump administration’s “f–k up of epic proportions” when top brass inadvertently shared sensitive plans to strike the Houthis with the top editor of Atlantic magazine.Portnoy, 48, cut a video message to President Trump, whom he backed in the 2024 election, insisting that heads should roll among the administration’s top brass over the Signal scandal, which he argued can’t be glossed over.“Trump, you may love Michael Waltz,” Portnoy said, addressing Trump specifically in a video posted on social media.

“You love Pete Hegseth.You may love these guys.

Somebody has to go down.”“To me, it’s Michael Waltz,” he added.“He’s the one who added him to this conversation.

But you can’t have the top of the top security people in the United States — with the most sensitive information in the world — adding random editors of a magazine that hates Trump’s guts to a group chat talking about an attack before it happens on a terrorist group.”National security adviser Mike Waltz had added Atlantic magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a private, encrypted Signal chat named “Houthi PC Small Group” where they deliberated over plans to attack the Yemen-based terrorist group.There were 18 high-level officials — including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others — in the Signal chat.At one point, Hegseth laid out detailed plans in the chat to strike Houthi targets, giving Goldberg a roughly two-hour heads-up before the military operation ensued.Waltz has since denied knowing Goldberg, despite the two being photographed together several years ago, and has been adamant that “I don’t text him, he wasn’t on my phone.” Waltz has even implied that he was faced with a situation where he had Goldberg’s “number on someone else’s contact.”Amid the growing fire...