“It’s not really a big problem”: Trump responds to the latest rounds of rounds published in Signal Scandal Text
President Donald Trump said that “it is not a big problem” that a journalist was Added to a signal group chat Those officials of the high -level administration were used to The plans to hit Yemen is discussed.
The Atlantic‘S The editor in chief Jeffery Goldberg, who was Inadvertently added to the group chat Used to discuss sensitive military operations, Published the messages Wednesday after the White house And the high American officials repeatedly stated that the chat did not contain classified information.
Trump replied to the loss during an apparition on Wednesday The Vince Show Podcast by Cognian Win.
“There were no details and there was nothing that was compromised,” said Trump. “And he had no impact on the attack, which was very successful.”
“Such a thing, perhaps Goldberg found a way,” he added. “Maybe there is a staff, maybe there is a very innocent staff, but we will get, I think we will get very quickly, and it’s not really a big problem.”
The Mike Waltz National Security Councilor took full responsibility for the Snafu Tuesday evening, telling Laura Ingraham of Fox News that a staff did not add Goldberg. The Atlantic Reported Waltz added Goldberg to the chat.
“Well, look, a staff was not responsible,” said Waltz. “Listen, I take full responsibility for me. I built the group to do: my job is to make sure everything is coordinated.”
He then continued to call Goldberg a “loser” who may have “deliberately” deceived someone in the administration to gain access to the chat.
The administration has fired Goldberg as a journalist who crossed the “buffaloes” hours earlier, despite a spokesman for the National Security Council that confirms the authenticity of the messages.
The messages of the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sent on the day of the attack, on March 15, contain a detailed temporal sequence of when the US forces would have affected Houthi in Yemen objectives.
“The Target terrorist is @ his well -known position, so he should be punctual,” said one of the Hegseth messages that day.
Hegseth shared the plan about two hours before the bombs fell into Yemen, The Atlantic reported. About 53 people, including children, were killed in the attacks.
Those present in the chat included CIA director John Ratcliffe and vice -president JD Vance, who were among those who interact with Hegseth when he shared the plans.
There were 19 members in the chat group, according to the screenshots published by The Atlantic. The outlet said he had drawn up the name of a CIA official who is appointed in the messages by Ratcliffe.
After the publication of the messages, the press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt issued Another denial.
“The Atlantic admitted: these were not” war plans “, he said in a post on X.” The whole story was another hoax written by a hatred of Trump well known for his sensationalist lap “.
The Independent He contacted the White House for a comment.
