President Donald Trump does not plan on firing anyone over the Signal national security group chat incident, he said in an interview on Saturday.
Trump discussed the matter during brief phone interview with NBC News over the weekend, telling the network: “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts.”
On Monday, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been inadvertently added to a national security group chat in which top Trump officials discussed airstrikes in Yemen. That chat included Vice President JD Vance, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and other members of Trump’s inner circle on March 15, as the national security team deliberated launching airstrikes on the Houthis.
Asked by NBC News on Saturday if he still has confidence in Hegseth and Waltz,…
