A day after unveiling a shocking safety offense of top officials of the Trump administration, the White House is digging in and hoping it could convince Americans to reject the unprecedented Lapse Media-Driven Partisan-Partiser, even if Democrats ask for resignations.
The Atlantic reported on Monday that White House national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally invited the editor -in -chief of Jeffrey Goldberg, on March 11 in a signal call called “Houthi PC Small Group”, a few days before Trump ordered the air strikes.
The report set out the so -called “war plans” and the fact that a journalist was allowed in the conversation raised alarms.
At Capitol Hill, the Democrats who saw them as rank have struck negligence of Trump’s hand plowed team, describing them as unqualified or incompetent in their actions as documented by The Atlantic Ocean.
“I think it’s clear that Secretary Hegseth is not ready for the first time, but he has the ability to undermine the safety of the United States,” Sen said. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a member of the Armed Services Committee, said, said The independent.
Waltz told colleagues in the group, including State Secretary Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Treasury Secretary Scott Bestent, the Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Plus Trump’s Middle Este Negotiate, Steve Witkoff, Stephen Miller -Staffer, Susie Wiles, Suses, Suses Wiles, Suses, Suses, Suses, Suses, Suses, Staffer, Stephen Miller, Staffer, Susie Wiles, has a division of the Staffer staff, Stephen Miller, Staffer, Susie Wiles. that the group is set up as a ‘principles [sic] Group for coordination on Houthis, especially for the next 72 hours. “
According to the top editor of the magazine, it is exactly what it was used for, which has a fine look at the top of the Trump administration’s top national safety buyer, discussing the plans for the first major military action of the new term of the 47th president.
National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes later confirmed the authenticity of the messages Goldberg received, which made it clear that what the veteran journalist saw was a shocking protocol that led to highly sensitive information on the national defense discussed about an application that has never been cleaned for use in the discussion of classified matters.
Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were given the opportunity to push two participants on the Signal Chat – Gabbard and Ratcliffe – over their actions during the annual global threats of the panel.
Gabbard, a former Hawaii democratic congressional wife, refused somewhat confusing to say where she was admitted to the chat group under questioning by senator Mark Warner, the committee’s vice-chairman. But Ratcliffe, who served as director of National Intelligence during the first term of Trump after defending him during the first of the then 45th president’s two prosecutions in the Home Intelligence Committee, freely admitted to participating.
While Goldberg’s version of the relevant group -minded descriptions of intelligence and military issues contained so sensitive that he refused to spell it out in the publication, Gabbard denied that any sensitive material was discussed and told the committee that there was ‘no classified or intelligence shares’ in the signal group.
Democrats on the panel were not impressed with the explanations of one of the officials.
“I thought they were inconsistent, ominous, difficult to believe as true, and especially the refusal to admit that it was a big mistake is to blow,” said Sen Jon Ossoff of Georgia The independent.
During the hearing, the Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, the vice -chairman of the committee, asked their resignation.
“The thing with the intelligence committee is that it was always two -party,” Warner told The Independent, adding that the Intelligence Committee held Trump accountable during his first administration and “I can’t believe my Republican colleagues don’t want to see this text chain either.”
But the most important question will be whether Republicans, who control both the home and the Senate, will use their supervisory authority to investigate what would be considered a staggering national security offense in any previous administration.
One GOP member of the Upper Chamber, sen. Thom Tillis of Northern Carolina, said The independent He wants to see a sin happening.
“I think that when you have something of this nature, a formal overview probably makes sense, because what you don’t want to do is repeat it,” says Tillis, who has recently voted to confirm Gabbard and Hegseth, despite expressing concern about their lack of experience and qualifications. “No damage was done in this particular case, but it was clearly something that could jeopardize the mission.”
The chairman of Senate Committee Roger Wicker said he and Democrat Jack Reed will go forward over a dual strategy.
“I think we want to get an accurate transcript to make sure there are no differences between what actually texted and what was reported in the story,” he said The independent.
But at the White House, Trump and his team aggressively pushed back against the idea that anything was done wrong by any of his leading assistants.
In a telephone interview with NBC News Tuesday morning, Trump claimed that Waltz was “a good man” who “learned his lesson” due to the bombing of the Atlantic Ocean.
He said the error was committed by “one of Michael’s People” that Goldberg added to the group chat and called the error “the only mistake in two months” that was “not a serious one.”
Hours later during a media availability with a group of US ambassadors, Trump again defended Waltz as “a very good man” who “would do a good job” in his role.
He turned to thank you again The Atlantic Ocean and Goldberg, who calls him “a sleabag” and his publication “a failed magazine”.
Trump admitted that his administration would “investigate” the use of signal “, but he seems to admit that” everyone “in his orbit” uses it “and suggested that the application be good to use, because no one found out in advance about the Houthi air attacks – except Goldberg, who did not report on them while observing the planning process.
“Are people able to break into conversations? And if that’s true, we’ll have to find another form of devices, and I think it’s something we might have to do, but some people really like Signal, ‘he said.
Waltz said the White House has “technical experts” and “our legal team” looking at the top officials’ use of signal because the administration “keeps everything as safe as possible”, and, as Trump, is going on to deprive the press by accusing journalists of talking about everything else, except for the hostages you want to get out of the midst, Iran on his back feet, [and] Peace in Europe. “
The war reaction of the national security advisor reflects the official line that Trump’s team took in the hours after the Senate trial.
A press release set out by the White House communication team accuses’ Democrats and their media ‘allies’ that they’ seem to have forgotten that President Donald J. Trump and his national security team who targeted the most resulting shipping routes in the world ‘, a coordinated effort in the world of the report, took the successful action of the President of Trump and his administration. Americans safe. “
Trump’s director of communications, Steven Cheung, went further and demanded that the massive mistake be forgotten immediately by describing it in a series of posts on X as a ‘hoax’ – a term regularly used by the president and his allies to describe facts, circumstances and reporting that is bad on him and his administration.
He called The Atlantic Ocean Reporting – A story that was verified by the National Security Council as accurate – “nothing more than a division of the Natsec establishment community that has been running the same, tired play of recent years.”
“From the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ from the first term to the Fake Documents case of the past four years … Anti-Trump forces at each innings tried to claim innocent actions and make them in faux outrage that could use false news stores to hold wrong information,” he wrote.
Cheung later added: “” Russia, Russia, Russia “Hoax led to a witch hunt. Documents led to a witch hunt. Signal Hoax outrage … A witch hunt.”
