SCOOP: Tom Cotton rejects demands from Senate Democrats and liberal journalists to investigate Signal usage

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) is refusing demands from both Senate Democrats and liberal journalists to allow the Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, to join in any investigation into the Trump administration over top national security leaders using Signal, sources confirmed exclusively to the Washington Reporter.

Cotton’s move comes after a banner week for the Arkansas lawmaker. The Reporter previously covered how he banned anti-American Code Pink protesters from the Senate’s annual threat assessment hearing, in which top Trump administration national security officials discussed threats ranging from Iran to China to foreign-funded protesters on college campuses.

Now, Cotton is standing shoulder-to-shoulder with President Donald Trump in dismissing attempts to further investigate his national security team because no further investigation is needed, a Senate GOP aide told the Reporter.

“Everything that happened is already public so there’s nothing to investigate,” the aide said. “This would be a fishing expedition aimed at damaging the Trump national security team and stopping them from doing their jobs.”

The Reporter previously published an editorial urging Republicans like Cotton to ignore the noise about so-called Signal-gate and to continue backing Trump’s top national security team. Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, John Ratcliffe, and other top leaders earned rave reviews from Republicans on and off the Hill who spoke with the Reporter following hours of their testimonies.

“The left and the media don’t care about group chats with the wrong number,” the piece read. “They’re furious that Trump’s killing terrorists and making America safer.”

The Democrats angry about Trump aides using Signal to coordinate certain aspects of strikes against Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists were mostly silent in the aftermath of the failed withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Joe Biden.

That calamity left 13 American servicemembers killed. The successful Houthi strikes left terrorists killed.