Hamza Adam 
President Donald Trump seems unconcerned about his National Security Adviser’s participation in an unsecured group Signal chat that saw highly classified military offensive strategies from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth leaked to a reporter — but commenters on social media aren’t buying his reaction.
In conversation with NBC News’ Garrett Haake, Trump said that “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” that this incident was the only “glitch” in two months, and that the attack in question was successful despite the leak.
But that didn’t fly with many analysts, who pointed out in particular that given Hegseth has publicly denied the leak even happened, as has the White House press secretary, it’s unclear what lesson has been learned, by Waltz or by anyone in the administration.
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“Life-long civil servant who disagrees with the president? Fired. Caught running national defense via group chat? Lesson learned,” wrote Brandon Weathersby, communications director for the progressive group American Bridge.
“Remember when, in the first impeachment, Senator Susan Collins said ‘President Trump has learned his lesson’ and refused to remove him from office?” wrote McGill University physics associate professor Robert Rutledge. “Seems that the lesson he learned, is how to excuse others’ illegal behavior saying ‘They learned their lesson’.”
“The story supposedly isn’t true, but he’s learned his lesson,” wrote Meidas Touch’s Ron Filipkowski.
“Time to see people on here claim it was fake or a setup after even Trump is admitting to its truth,” wrote attorney Blake Allen.
“What lesson has he learned?” wrote Democratic strategist Josh Schwerin. “@SecDef said the story was fake and @PressSec said they did everything by the book. So what’s the lesson @MikeWaltz47?”