It was the moment Democrats had been breathlessly waiting for: a mistake by the Trump Team. And to be sure, it was an unforced error: somehow the editor of the far-left outlet The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included on a chat with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and other top Trump administration security officials. They were discussing a potential attack on Houthi militants in Yemen in response to their ongoing disruption of key shipping lanes.
Goldberg could have alerted the White House right away that he had been included, but the craven attention-seeker stayed quiet as the messages went back and forth. When he finally went public, he promised that he would deliver some bombshell information proving that the officials had been talking about top-secret war plans over the encrypted…