Jimmy Kimmel on Signalgate: ‘This operation was about as secretive as a Fortnite Twitch stream’

Late-night hosts continued to sift through the fallout from the Trump administration accidentally sending – and then denying – classified war plans to a journalist.Jimmy KimmelJimmy Kimmel continued to express shock over the story dubbed “Signalgate” on Wednesday evening, as outrage built over the Trump administration’s use of Signal for top-secret military strikes and for inviting the Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat discussing strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.Despite the moving parts, “it’s not even a complicated story. It’s a simple story,” said Kimmel. “There was a high-level government text chain. They were using an app that the government specifically warned them not to use, they shared specific times they would be attacking another country hours before the attack, and they accidentally put a reporter on the chain to witness the whole thing. That’s it. That’s the plot. The chat’s outta the bag.“But what makes a Donald Trump presidency more spasmodically volatile...