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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz assumed “full responsibility” for a leaked Signal group chat of senior Trump officials who discussed the plans for an upcoming strike over the hutis in Yemen.
“I assume all the responsibility. I built the group,” Waltz said in “Ingraham angle” Tuesday. “It’s shameful. We’re going to get to the bottom.”
Trump reveals who was behind the escape from the signaling text chain
Jeffrey Goldberg, chief editor of the Atlantic, written A first person account to obtain a connection request for what seemed to be Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Waltz, March 11 In sign, A popular encryption messaging service used by journalists and government officials. He accepted and then added to a chat group called “small group of the Houthi PC”, where he proceeded to see a series of Trump’s senior officials discuss what turned out to be an upcoming attack against the hutis, in what critics call a massive rape of national security.
According to reports, several Trump officials were at the Chat, including Waltz, vice president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the White House Cabinet Chief, Susie Wiles.
President Donald Trump was asked about history at the White House on Monday, but Sinottered looked like, and took a chance in the Atlantic when asked about his participation.
“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a great Atlantic admirer,” he told a journalist. “For me, it’s a magazine who is doing the business. I think it’s not a great magazine, but I don’t know anything about it.”
Waltz also pointed out some criticisms of the Atlantic, declaring that he did not know Goldberg out of what the NSA called her “horrible reputation.”
“I can tell you for 100%, I do not know this guy. I know him for his horrible reputation, and he really is the slag of journalists. And I know him in the sense that he hates the president, but I did not send him a text message. I was not on my phone. And we will discover how this happened,” said Waltz, after making similar comments about Goldberg on the earliest Tuesday.
“I am not a conspiracy theorist, but of all people. In some way, this type, who has lied about the president, who has lied to the families of Gold Star, has lied to his lawyers and has gone to Russia, who has gone to all kinds of length to lie and mentalize the president of the United States, and he is the one that somehow puts herself in contact and then struck this group.” “
The Atlantic responded to “Ingraham angle” In part, saying: “The attempts to belittle and discredit the Atlantic, our editor and our report follow an obvious book book by elected officials and others in power that are hostile for journalists and the rights of the first amendment of all Americans …”
Trump defended Waltz in comments to Fox News on Tuesday, saying that the national security advisor will not be fired by the incident despite some some Democrats asking for waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegesh to resign after the apparent national security violation.
“It’s not being fired,” Trump told Fox News. The president said the incident was an “error”, although there was nothing important “in the thread of the signal text.
Waltz also went to Comments from President to NBC Tuesday That a member of the Waltz office staff was behind the incorporation of the journalist into the group chat.
“A staff member was not responsible,” he said, revealing that there was a different contact destined to be added to the group. “You have another person’s number in another person’s contact. So, of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It seemed someone else. Now, if he did it deliberately or that happened in another technical medium is something we are trying to solve.”
Waltz did not reveal who was destined to be added to the signal chat.
During the same interview with NBC on Tuesday, Trump said that Goldberg’s inclusion in the group chat had no impact “on the Hit in Yemen.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and it’s a good man,” Trump, “Trump He told NBC In the telephone interview on Tuesday.
The White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, added in a social media post on Tuesday that “‘war plans'” were discussed in the group chat, and that “no classified material was sent to thread.”
“As the National Security Council declared, the White House is investigating how Goldberg’s number was added inadvertently to the thread. Thanks to the strong and decisive leadership of President Trump, and all in the group, Houthi’s strikes were successful and effective. The terrorists were killed and that is what matters most to President Trump,” he added.
Waltz told “The Ingraham Angle” that he took valuable lessons of the signal chat filtration episode.
“The lesson learned number one is that you have journalists who have made fame and fortune trying to destroy this president,” Waltz told Fox News Laura Ingraham. “And so, we have to tighten. We are hardening and we have some of the best technological minds that look at how this happened.”
“We made a mistake. We are moving forward and we will continue to take out of this president.”
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Greg Norman, Emma Colton and David Rutz de Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
