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We’ve all sent an email where we forgot to BCC everyone or texted the wrong person. But the stakes are a little different when it’s a DoD group chat and the media is waiting to pounce.

NBC News reported President Trump defended National Security Adviser Mike Waltz after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a private Signal chat discussing military plans in Yemen. Trump stated that Waltz had “learned a lesson” and insisted Goldberg’s presence had “no impact” on operations. The incident drew criticism from Democrats, who questioned national security protocols and the use of Signal for sensitive discussions. The White House denied that classified information was shared.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted via X:

Jeffrey Goldberg is well-known for his sensationalist spin. Here are the facts about his latest story:

1. No “war plans” were discussed.
2. No classified material was sent to the thread.
3. The White House Counsel’s Office has provided guidance on a number of different platforms for President Trump’s top officials to communicate as safely and efficiently as possible. As the National Security Council stated, the White House is looking into how Goldberg’s number was inadvertently added to the thread. Thanks to the strong and decisive leadership of President Trump, and everyone in the group, the Houthi strikes were successful and effective. Terrorists were killed and that’s what matters most to President Trump.

Townhall columnist Kurt Schlichter wrote:

Understand that no one outside of Washington, DC, or Twitter cares about some journalist getting mistakenly admitted into a Signal thread. At all. The Democrats think they have finally found something they can sink their teeth into after two months of unbroken failure and humiliation, but it’s a pretty pathetic morsel. Real people don’t care about it.

Unfortunately, some conservatives do. To care about this is a huge mistake. We don’t know what this even is. What we have are the weasel words of Jeffrey Goldberg, a guy with so little credibility that if he told me the sun was coming up in the east I would arise before dawn to confirm it, saying that these guys were discussing war plans. I’ve seen war plans. I held a Top Secret clearance once upon a time. These were not war plans. I can safely say that there was no operations order cut and pasted into some Signal text.

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