Trump shifts blame for Signalgate texts onto 'lower level' mystery employee [View all]

Source: The Independent

Trump shifts blame for Signalgate texts onto ‘lower level’ mystery employee

In an interview with Newsmax, Trump offered a new theory on how journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic ended up on a Signal group chat with senior officials discussing bombing plans in Yemen earlier this month

Mike Bedigan
in New York
Wednesday 26 March 2025 05:52 GMT

Donald Trump has shifted the blame for a major security blunder in which details of U.S. military operations in Yemen were leaked to a journalist on a secret group chat to an unidentified, “lower level” White House employee that worked for his National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.

Trump offered the new theory in an interview on Newsmax Tuesday evening on how Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, ended up on the Signal group chat in which the top-secret plans were discussed.

“What it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with permission, somebody that was with Mike Waltz, worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level, had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app, and somehow this guy ended up on the call,” the president said.

Trump’s explanation followed an earlier TV appearance by Waltz, who took “full responsibility” for allowing Goldberg to gain access to the discussions.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-newsmax-interview-signal-text-blame-b2721590.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-shifts-blame-signalgate-texts-014254682.html

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The Rump administration is full bullshit mode. Anything but the truth is spewing out, anything.