The Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg claims that he was “accidentally” added to a group chat of senior Trump administration officials as they were planning to bomb the Houthis. He says that he was added by national security advisor Michael Waltz.
This story is fishy for many reasons. First, how does no one notice in several days of planning a bombing campaign that there is a journalist on the chain? Second, how does Walz have this journalist in his contacts? Could it be because he’d been leaking information to him already? Third, why does the Secretary of Defense put all of the logistics of the bombing raid in a chat with cabinet members? Do they usually know those details? Fourth, why are they using Signal? That would be a violation of federal records law.
Goldberg claims that he knew about the bombing in advance and then it actually happened.
A spokesman for the National Security Council told The Atlantic that the Signal group was real.
“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Brian Hughes, the spokesperson said.
The thread shows that Vice President Vance is hesitant about escalation in the Middle East and the Secretary of Defense is gung ho. Is this some kind of set up to show us who are the escalators and who are not? Is it a ploy to oust Walz or Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth? And did civilians have to die to show that?
Secretary Hegseth explained this by saying that Goldberg peddles in lies and garbage. When President Trump was asked about it on Monday, he said this: “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You’re saying that they had what?”
He later joked about it on Truth Social.
