White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic of “sensationalist spin” in his now-viral report about a national security Signal chat where top Trump officials discussed airstrikes in Yemen.
On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg, a long-time Trump critic, published a story saying National Security Adviser Mike Waltz added him to a group chat on March 15 that included Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chief-of-Staff Susie Wiles, and other officials.
The national security team discussed the forthcoming airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen during the chat on Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging service.
But the group chat, titled “Houthi PC small group,” discussed no “war plans,” as Goldberg claimed, according to Leavitt.
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