A simple “glitch”, a “sneaky journalist” tightening “hoaxes” … Donald Trump’s team, in unison with the media acquired in his cause, released the trains on Tuesday to try to minimize the flight of military plans in error to Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of chief of chief The Atlanticwho revealed the case in an article Monday March 24.
The American president himself countered aggressively during a telephone call with the NBC channel, ensuring that it was “only glitch in two months, and in the end without gravity”. He then said that Jeffrey Goldberg was a “twisted”, and assured that “everyone doesn’t care” what publishes what The Atlantic.
Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he was mistakenly added to a group of discussion of the highest US officials, where he had access to a detailed project concerning attacks in Yemen, with information on the targets and the course of the operation. He also reproduced certain hostile exchanges towards Europeans, described as “profiteers” with “pathetic” behavior by the Minister of US Defense, and accused by JD Vance of taking advantage of these US military operations.
“No one has sent any war plans”
“I am not sure that it requires special attention,” said the chief of the Republicans to the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, according to the New York Times.
“You are talking about a so-called sneaky and very discredited journalist who has had a job to peddle hoaxes on many occasions,” the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, also told journalists on Monday. “No one sent war plans and that’s all I have to say about it,” he added. “It is a lie. He sent war plans by SMS. He sent SMS attack plans,” immediately refuted Jeffrey Goldberg, interviewed on the American channel Cnn.
The intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard, assaulted questions by elected democrats for a long -term hearing in the Senate, said that “there was no shared classified information”, while refusing to confirm that she was one of the very high level participants of the Signal Discussion Group.
The boss of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, auditioned at the same time as Tulsi Gabbard, admitted to him having participated in this loop of messages devoted to the preparations for air attacks against the Houthi rebels, finally carried out on March 15. However, he defended an “authorized and legal” use according to him of this application for these exchanges between the vice-president, JD Vance, the Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth and the head of diplomacy, Marco Rubio, among others.
For the independent senator Angus King, “it is hard to believe that the targets and the calendar (strikes) and the weapons have not been classified”. “War plans should never be discussed on a non -classified messaging application […] Let us call this by his name: a security flaw, “he denounced on X.
Mike Waltz assumes his “error”
Donald Trump, however, wanted to defend his national security advisor Mike Waltz, assuring that he “does his best” and that “he is a very good man”, judging, during an exchange with the press in the White House, that the latter did not have to apologize. The 78 -year -old republican only conceded that his advisor would “probably” abstain “immediately” to use the signal private messaging again, at the heart of this case.
In the evening, the president added during an interview on the Newsmax channel that it was perhaps “someone who works for Mike Waltz” who had the number of Jeffrey Goldberg and would be responsible for his addition in the signal loop.
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Interviewed for his part on Fox News, Donald Trump’s national security advisor said he assumed his “whole responsibility” after this “error”. “We have the best technical teams who try to understand how it could happen,” added Mike Waltz, suggesting that he could have had the journalist’s number on his phone thinking that it was that of someone else. “I do not know this guy, I only know him of reputation, and she is horrible […] But I don’t write him, “he insisted.
Democratic senator Mark Warner has castigated “the negligent, reckless, incompetent” attitude of the lieutenants of the Republican President. “The lack of will of the individuals of this panel who were in the discussion of the same apologize or to recognize how a monumental flesh is, says a lot,” he concluded.
Many pro-Trump media figures have also minimized the importance of the case, or even made fun of it, as pointed out CnnElon Musk making jokes on x on this subject. Monday evening, on Fox News, the commentator Sean Hannity has annoyed himself with an alleged “media hysteria”, while, reports CNN, the commentator and presenter Jesse Watters said in his program, “We have all sent a text to the bad person”. Tuesday morning, guest host Kayleigh Mcenany also said that it was a “manifest error”, before saying that Jeffrey Goldberg was “not a credible journalist”, even though the Trump administration itself had already confirmed the authenticity of messages. The article by Jeffrey Goldberg, on the other hand, is, according to the American channel, the most read article on the site of The Atlantic.