Three More Signalgate Participants Had Open Venmos

Wired reports:

A number of top Trump administration officials—including four who were on a now-infamous Signal group chat—appear to have Venmo accounts that have been leaking data, including contacts and in some cases transactions, to the public. Experts say this is a potentially serious counterintelligence problem that could allow foreign intelligence services to gain insight into a target’s social network or even identify individuals who could be paid or coerced to act against them.

The officials in question include Dan Katz, chief of staff at the US Treasury; Joe Kent, President Trump’s nominee for director of the National Counter Terrorism Center; and Mike Needham, counselor and chief of staff to the secretary of state. All three were participants in the “Houthi PC small group” chat in which sensitive attack plans were discussed and to which Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally invited.

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Kent [photo], a far-right and twice-failed US House candidate appeared here in November 2024 when he praised the Proud Boys for “fighting antifa.”

Before that he appeared here when he declared that he would be keeping an $8600 donation from a Capitol rioter who was then facing felony assault charges.

We first heard from Kent in 2022 when he gave an interview to a white nationalist Nazi podcaster.

Earlier today Wired reported that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz also had an open Venmo account which showed dozens of reporters on his friends list.

SCOOP: WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.https://t.co/GBJH9M4vB6

— WIRED (@WIRED) March 27, 2025