Summary
Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat discussing Yemen military strikes after mistakenly saving Goldberg’s number months earlier.
An internal investigation revealed Waltz’s iPhone inadvertently saved Goldberg’s number under NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes’ contact during the 2024 campaign.
Trump considered firing Waltz but decided against it, reportedly more angered that Waltz had Goldberg’s number than that classified discussions occurred on an unclassified platform.
The White House had authorized continued Signal use in the absence of secure alternatives.
But he had a journalist’s number in his phone, so he was talking to him before this. What’s more likely: he accidentally saved it under someone else’s name and then never called them to find out it was the wrong person, or he put it under another name to hide the fact that he was talking to a journalist? I’m putting my money on door #2.