Trump news today: Press secretary claims Signal texts were not war plans and calls journalist ‘anti-Trump hater’
Donald Trump’s administration remains under fire over the alarming security breach that saw Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, added by mistake to a Signal group chat in which the president’s most senior security officials discussed upcoming military action.
The magazine published their text exchange in full on Wednesday after the administration denied classified information was compromised.
Trump said his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has nothing to apologize for and has attempted to shift the blame towards an unnamed “lower level” White House employee instead, despite Waltz himself saying he takes “full responsibility” for the disaster.
Also swept up in the scandal centered on an operation targeting Houthi positions in Yemen are Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance. Hegseth shared strike times and other details in the chat and is facing calls for his resignation from Democrats. The White House is pushing back by claiming there is a difference between “attack plans” and “war plans.”
At a testy and somewhat curtailed White House briefing, press secretary Karoline Leavitt attacked Goldberg as an “anti-Trump hater,” wouldn’t explain why the administration doesn’t believe the timings of attacks and weaponry used were not classified information, and then refused follow-up questions.
