Hillary Clinton's seven-word reaction to Trump admin’s group chat leak faces backlash

Hillary Clinton’s brutal seven-word response to the Trump Administration group chat leak has divided social media users, with some claiming the former Secretary of State ‘should not be talking’.

On Monday (March 24), Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, published an article titled ‘The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me its War Plans’.

The report revealed that the 59-year-old had been accidentally added to a WhatsApp that included US Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security adviser Mike Waltz, and others.

Goldberg writes that the group chat members debated policy, discussed operational details about the impending US military strike, and discussed the potential for Europe to pay for US protection of key shipping lanes also taking place.

The article has since been shared by Clinton, 77, the Former United States Secretary of State.

Clinton herself drew controversy during her four-year tenure for using a private email server to send official public communications instead of using an official State Department address.

After a years-long FBI investigation, it was ruled that the politician’s server didn’t contain any ‘classified’ information and no charges would be filed against her.

Sharing a link to the jaw-dropping Atlantic article, Clinton wrote: “You have got to be kidding me.”

The message, which included the side-eye emoji, has already been bookmarked an astonishing 6,800 times and has received 33,000 reposts from fans and critics alike.

“She should not be talking…,” Kyle Adams, a former Republican political consultant, wrote on X.

“I’m old enough to remember when you used a server in your basement and nothing happened to you,” Michael J. Morrison, a member of the New York Young Republicans noted.

“Instead of snark and emojis and quoting ‘but her emails’ can somebody, anybody in the dem establishment make an actual, real statement saying something like ‘This is a violation that weakens America and we will be moving forward with calls for resignation/ a censure / anything’?,” some other user chastised.

However, many others have defended the ex-U.S. senator, with one writing: “Trump called for Hilary Clinton to be locked up for using her private email address instead of her govt one but the Muppet Show cast of the MAGA govt send out classified information on a group chat and Fox try to make it look normal.”

A second said: “Hillary Clinton - attacked & demonised for using personal email - where are the acres of outrage [from] the media about the use of WhatsApp for top secret security discussions? TOP secret war plans no less! Trump is a joke but no one’s actually laughing except President Xi perhaps!”

“Everyone that voted for Trump in 2016 or just didn’t vote in 2016 because of the email thing owes this woman a massive handwritten apology. Right f****ng now,” someone else responded.

The White House has since confirmed the group chat message leak with national security council spokesperson, Brian Hughes, telling the Guardian: "This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain."

However, the White House did make an attempt to defend the communications, with Hughes describing the messages as an example of 'deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials'.

"The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security," he added.

Trump also alleged he didn’t know ‘anything about’ the messages, remarking that the Atlantic was ‘not much of a magazine’.