The Atlantic is now backpedalling on a story that initially claimed Trump officials shared ‘war plans’ with editor-in-chief Jeff Goldberg via an unsecured chat on Signal. The network’s headline original stated that “war plans” were shared with him, but has since been updated to “Attack Plans” after the White House criticized the editor for sensationalism. While information about a Yemen mission was shared, Trump and Republicans were adamant that no war plans were shared in that chat.
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The liberal news outlet which has ground Washington, D.C. to a halt within the past few days has backtracked after claiming that top Trump officials had shared “war plans” with an editor over an unsecured group chat.
One day after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Goldberg of adding “sensationalist spin” to his report, editors have changed the story’s headline. It now reads “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisors Shared on Signal.”
As conservative journalist Eric Daugherty pointed out on X, the change in headline absolutely corroborates Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s statement that “nobody was texting war plans” in that chat.
He wrote, “THEY’RE BACKPEDALING! The Atlantic just sent out an update report CLARIFYING that there WERE NO WAR PLANS exchanged in that Signal chat… they were (as we all saw) some discussion on the Houthi strikes that Americans knew were coming.”
Daugherty added, “This hoax totally fell on its face!”
Hegseth told reporters on Monday, “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,” he added.
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.”