[Source](https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/25/is-this-proof-the-signal-chat-kerfuffle-was-a-setup-n4938255) > There are a lot of questions surrounding this situation. Many on the left are criticizing the Trump administration for using the secure messaging app Signal in the first place. However, according to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Joe Biden first authorized the use of Signal for government communications. > This jibes with what CNN’s Scott Jennings revealed Monday night. His sources told him that Signal was preloaded on various devices when the Trump administration took over for the Biden administration. > “I did learn a few things in some of my conversations, if you're interested,” he said. “One is that the Signal program was preloaded on a number of devices and agency computers in this circuit when they got there. So, in their view, it was already in use.”