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.
Because this just “happens” to everyone, right? The iPhone did it, not him screwing up. This feels like “the dog ate my homework“ level of investigation.
“We investigated ourselves, and found it to be the phone’s falt.”
I think I’m even more scared now that this has gone from “potentially screwing up by adding the wrong person to a Signal group,” to “doesn’t even know how to add a contact to their iPhone” level of incompetence. How do these people even manage to put on their pants?
Their tailors sew them on one leg at a time like everybody else’s
It wasn’t me officer, my gun just shot that guy while I was holding it.
You just added the wrong fucking Goldberg you fucken idiot. Shut the fuck up.
You know how sometimes you have a “contact and then it, and then somehow it gets sucked in” to another contact on your phone? You know?
