POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: Moulton enters the chat
By Kelly Garrity MESSAGING MATTERS — Rep. Seth Moulton has two words to describe national security officials’ apparent accidental war plan leak: incompetent and illegal. Those would actually “describe most of what the Trump-Musk administration is doing,” Moulton told Playbook Monday. “It's dangerous for our troops, for our intelligence professionals, fundamentally dangerous for our national security — and yet, it's not surprising to me at all.” The bombshell Atlantic report , which detailed how Trump officials inadvertently included the magazine’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a private chat laying out plans for a military strike in Yemen, underscores that point. As Democrats continue to search for the most salient message to push back against Trump 2.0, Moulton, a Marine veteran who served in Iraq, has concentrated his criticisms of Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to highlight an argument that ought to reso...