White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz responded to the explosive report in The Atlantic from a reporter who was accidentally included in a Signal chat group where high-level Trump officials were discussing a forthcoming strike on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Waltz made the remarks to reporters during a meeting on Tuesday where other administration officials were present as the president signed executive orders. He said he has never met or communicated with Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, who wrote the story.
“There’s a lot of journalists in this city who have made big names for themselves [by] making up lies about this president, whether it’s the Russia hoax or making up lies about Gold Star families,” Waltz said. “And this [journalist] in particular, I’ve never met, don’t know, never communicated with and we are looking…
