When asked how the journalist was added to a thread including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump blamed a lower-level staffer.
  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    KEY POINTS

    • President Donald Trump said he was not upset with national security advisor Michael Waltz for reportedly adding a journalist to a Signal thread with top officials discussing military plans.
    • “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call when asked about the bombshell revelation published in The Atlantic a day earlier.
    • The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been added by to a Signal thread called the “Houthi PC small group.”

    Yes, these are the key points. DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Like why this happened.