The incompetent and unrepentant Mike Walz is trying to blame the journalist for being added to the group, suggesting (without evidence) that the journalist may have changed his name on Signal to appear like he was someone else.
Now, I’ve worked in high street retail before and the way data protection is now if a 16 year old minimum wage sales attendant gives out sensitive personal account information of John Smith to a person who simply walks up and says they are John Smith then that employee and that company can really be in quite deep shit - because it’s obviously an incredibly stupid thing to do. But hey, these are highly paid white male professionals. They can possibly be held to the same standard as teenage part timers and DEI looking folks.