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China, Russia angle in Signal chat leak? Laura Loomer's ‘Alex Wong’ theory
Potential China and Russia links to the Signal group chat leak have surfaced
Right-wing commentator Laura Loomer on Wednesday suggested that there could be a possible ‘China link’ to the recent Signal chat leak row that is troubling the Trump administration. The 31-year-old brought up principal deputy national security advisor Alex Wong's wife Candice Chiu, whose parents worked in Hong Kong. However, Loomer did not provide any concrete evidence to back her claim.
Laura Loomer's social media post came days after The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that top Trump officials mistakenly added him to a Signal group where potential plans for strikes on Houthis were discussed.
Vice President JD Vance and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed Goldberg's claims as a ‘hoax’. National Security adviser Mike Waltz took complete responsibility, admitting that ‘we made a mistake’.
Laura Loomer posts ‘China’ angle
Staunch Trump ally Loomer tweeted about Waltz's deputy Alex Wong's alleged China links.
Wong ‘is married to U.S. Attorney Candice Chiu Wong, a Chinese Woman who was one of the key attorneys involved in PROSECUTING J6ers,’ she tweeted.
“I have discovered that Alex’s wife, Candice Chiu Wong, worked under the Obama administration and the Biden administration as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, where she led the Violence Reduction and Trafficking Offenses Section for more than two years,” Loomer added on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
We are unable to verify the authenticity of Laura Loomer's claims.
Chiu's father is a retired senior manager of satellite operations at AsiaSat in Hong Kong. Her mother worked as a dietitian at Grantham Hospital, The New York Times reported back in 2014.
Read More: The Atlantic releases the entire Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against Houthis
Russia angle
Several social media users noted that Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff, was in Moscow when he was included in the Signal chat group. CBS News cited open-source flight information and Russian media reporting to confirm the same.
The report further noted that Russia has repeatedly tried to compromise Signal. However, Jeffrey Goldberg has not mentioned Witkoff making comments in the group chat. As of now, it is not clear whether the phone used by Witkoff was a government-issued device or a personal one.
