Despite previous reports, it has been confirmed that Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly (or perhaps not so mistakenly?) added to a Signal group chat on Military strikes against the Houthis. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump revealed that a National Security Council staffer and aide to National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is the one who added Goldberg.
The president told NBC News, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there,” but did not offer the name of the staffer.
Trump also did not throw Walz under the bus, declaring that “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.”
He continued on to assure Americans that Goldberg being in the chat had “no impact at all” on the strikes, and explained that he has full confidence in his national security team.
Trump added that this incident is “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.”
President Trump is standing by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Trump told NBC News this morning that Waltz "learned a lesson" and that it was apparently a staffer who accidentally added The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal chat regarding the Houthis operation.
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As previously reported by America First News, Goldberg claimed he was added to the group chat on March 13, and falsely reported that the morning of the strikes against Houthis on March 15, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had “texted [him] the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.”
However, Hegseth addressed the statement on Monday, stating that “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.”
He continued, “You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia, or the fine people on both sides, hoax, or suckers and losers hoax.”
“This is the guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does,” Hegseth added.