Two days after the photo of Waltz was published, an anonymous source told me that they had hacked TeleMessage. "I would say the whole process took about 15 to 20 minutes," the hacker said, as Joseph Cox and I reported in 404 Media. "It wasn't much effort at all."
Just a day after joining his fellow Cabinet members in offering obsequious praise to President Trump, Mike Waltz has landed in a dismally familiar position: out of favor. Waltz found out what so many of Trump's courtiers over the years have learned: you may shamelessly suck up, sell out your principles, betray your values, and flip-flop on all that you hold dear in the name of Trump, but it still won't stop him from dumping you in a maximally embarrassing way.
"This isn't 'The Matrix'. Phone numbers don't just get sucked into other phones," The Atlantic magazine's editor in chief said in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker.
