TURNINGLEFT—The Trump White House mistakenly included the Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief in a group text chat on Houthi strikes in Yemen.
The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a Trump administration text chat discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen in the hours after the first bombs dropped, the White House has confirmed.
In a story published in The Atlantic on March 24, journalist and editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg recounted being added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal on March 15, nearly three hours before the U.S. government officially announced that it had resumed a campaign of strikes targeting the Houthis.
Recounting the incident for The Atlantic, Goldberg reported that an individual who he believes to have been White House national security adviser Mike Waltz added him to a group chat at 11:44 a.m. ET on March 15. At 2:29 p.m. ET on the same day, Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to publicly announce the new U.S. strikes on Yemen.
Right-wing pundits and Trump himself would have plastered such a blunder all over the media and Truth Social. In this case? Trump said he didn’t know anything about it.