Trump defends the nationwide safety chief Waltz after sign texts through the Houthi strike sign sign sign despatched to reporter

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press when he meets on March 13, 2025 with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, as, from L to R, Vice President JD Vance, Minister of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

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President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not upset about the national security advisor Michael Waltz, after he reported a journalist to a text thread in which top officials discussed pending military strikes.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he is a good man,” said Trump in a phone call to NBC News when he was asked if he was still trusting in his national security assistant.

When asked how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was admitted to a text thread, the Vice President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, Trump accused an employee of the lower level.

“It was one of Michael's people on the phone. An employee had his number there,” said the president.

Goldberg revealed in a Bombhell article on Monday that his number on signal, an encrypted messaging app, had been added to a chat thread called “Houthi PC Small Group” on March 13.

The thread showed the participants who discussed and discussed plans in connection with the US bomb attacks on Houthi goals in Yemen, which were ultimately carried out on March 15.

The names of the participants seemed to comply with those of the top Trump administrative officers, including Vance, Hegseth and Waltz and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard, CIA director John Ratcliffe and Minister of Finance Scott Bessent.

A spokesman for the National Security Council confirmed the authenticity of the signal group in the Atlantic and said: “We check how an unintentional number was added to the chain.”

But Trump and his officials still pushed the story back, Goldberg's characterization of the thread contested as “war plans” and started personal attacks on Goldberg himself.

“Nobody wrote war plans. And that's all I have to say,” said Hegseth on Monday afternoon.

The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, repeated the claim that “no” war plans “were” discussed “, and denied that a classified material was sent on the signal thread.

Goldberg answered bluntly. “This is a lie. He wrote war plans, he wrote plans for attack,” he said in a CNN interview on Monday evening.

Gabard and Ratcliffe testify on Tuesday morning before the Senate's intelligence agency shot for the annual “worldwide threats”.

At the beginning of this hearing, Senator Mark Warner, D-VA., The ranking member of the intelligence panel, held the Atlantic history as the latest example of what he described as “sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior”, by the Trump administration as “sloppy, inattentive, inappropriate”.

“This is not an off,” he said, adding that another military would “dismiss” of secret service officers for a similar behavior.

The criticism of the controversy for the SMS was not limited to Democrats.

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb.

“Just be honest and have it,” said Bacon and added, “it is a fact” that was included in classified information.

“So it's pretty, I think it's pretty clear,” he said.

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