One of the most proven and … true tactics of his political career Donald Trump is to attack critics wildly who discover junk things about him. It allows him to gather his supporters behind a common enemy – often the media – even if what is revealed is problematic.

This is definitely the policy approach with the editor of Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldbergwho revealed that leading Trump government officials were discussing military attack plans in an unrecognized application. Trump and his team have begun a ruthless attack on Goldberg, despite the fact that the government has confirmed the plausibility of the texts published by Atlantic.

But Trump and his allies are really digging a hole with their latest conspiracy theory, which aims for Goldberg. Theory promoted by Trump, National Security Advisor Michael Walts And some of their “friends” in the media are as follows: Goldberg may have found access to Signal’s group conversation with malicious media.

In an interview with Fox News, Waltz offered a complicated theory of how Goldberg was added, saying that he somehow entered the team, perhaps portraying someone else. “I didn’t see him in the team. Looked like someone else, “he said Waltz. “Now, if he did so deliberately or happened to another technical medium is something we are trying to understand.”

Other friends of Trump, such as Bill O’reilly and the presenter of Fox, Jesse Wattersthey also promoted the theory. To be clear, there is no evidence that Goldberg did something wrong when added to Signal’s conversation.

(Waltz confirmed on Tuesday that a “person I thought was there was never there” but did not specifically said who. Greer’s name does not appear on the list of contacts in Signal’s thread published on Wednesday, suggesting that it had not really been invited.

Appearing on Wednesday morning at MsnbcGoldberg assured that “the simple truth of the matter is on March 11, Michael Waltz sent me a message request to Signal and I accepted it. This is the whole story. I mean, there is no violation here. “

It is the kind of story that you do not even want to write or comment because it is in danger of giving legality to an unfounded and conspiracy allegation. It helps Trump turn the focus to someone else, for whom there is no information on offenses.

Also: It is a completely useless theory for the Trump team, even if it was somehow true. Indeed, it simply reinforces how dangerous their actions were.

Just think about what this would mean. It would mean that top officials of the Trump government, using an unchanged application, allowed a journalist – even in hackers – to successfully infiltrate something as sensitive as the planning of military attacks.

The main issue here is not that Goldberg was added to the conversation. It is that officials were discussing something very sensitive – attack plans that, if they leaked to the wrong people, could have endangered the mission or even endanger the lives of US soldiers – in an apparent application that is not authorized for such things. The fact that an unauthorized journalist was added simply reinforced this danger.

It is precisely this kind of concern that leads the US government to discourage and prohibit the use of applications such as Signal to discuss sensitive issues. Just last month, the Google Threat Intelligence Group He said of “growing efforts by several Russian government agents to violate Signal Messenger accounts used by people who are interested in Russian intelligence services”.

If, as the conspiracy theory says, an American journalist could so easily penetrate this conversation, how difficult can this be thoughtful hackers from our opponents?

The administration defended the use of Signal, noting that it is encrypted and safer than other messaging applications.

“Again, to be clear, the use of Signal Message and end -to -end encryption applications is permissible and in this case it was used in a permissible manner, at least in my understanding, and in a legitimate way,” CIA Director John Ratclifos testified on Tuesday.

Now the administration proposes this same application. And her inner discussions could have been virtually hacked by an amateur. This can help them attack Goldberg. But it strongly undermines their efforts to argue that this is not a huge foul.