Donald Trump’s administration accidentally included a journalist from the American media The Atlantic in a private messaging group in which members of the Executive discussed attacks against the Hutis rebels in Yemen, an error that on Monday said they were investigating.
Brian Hughes, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said the messages unveiled by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the publication, seemed to be “authentic” and that the government was “reviewing how an unexpected number was added to the chain,” according to The Washington Post newspaper.
Goldberg made his story public this Monday in an article entitled ‘The Trump administration accidentally message me his war plans’ and in this he explained that at the beginning of March an account that had the name of the White House Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, had included it in a conversation of the Signal application.
In addition to Waltz, the chat included accounts that apparently belonged to key figures such as the vice president, JD Vance, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the State, Marco Rubio, and even the National Director of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, among others.
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Two hours after Goldberg’s story became public, Trump said he had no knowledge of the article published by The Atlantic.
“I don’t know anything about it. I am not a big fan of Atlantic. For me it is a magazine that will disappear. I think it’s not a great magazine. But I don’t know anything about her,” he said when asked about the press.
In the conversation, an account with the name of Hegseth described an attack plan against the hutis in Yemen, with sensitive information as the precise moment of attacks or what type of armament would be used.
According to the journalist, the group not only worked for logistics purposes, but also served to discuss the decisions that were being made.
The vice president considered in the same that the Trump administration was making an error at the beginning of this attack and showed its concern about the impact that it could have in Europe.
Vance explained that the offensive could mean an increase in oil prices and that the public would not be able to understand the reason why it would be important.
Hesgeth, according to the filtering chat, said the message would be “difficult to pass whatever happens”: “No one knows who the hutis are, so we would have to continue focused on: 1) (the former president, Joe) Biden failed and 2) they will financed,” according to Goldberg.
“He had serious doubts that this text group was real, because he could not believe that US national security leaders were communicated through signal on imminent war plans,” he wrote in his article.
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Goldberg confirmed that the plans were real when on March 15, at the time the Secretary of Defense had described, explosion reports in Saná, the capital of Yemen, began to see.
“Having reached this conclusion, which seemed almost impossible only a few hours earlier, I retired from the Signal group understanding that this would automatically notify the group creator, ‘Michael Waltz’, which had gone to me,” Goldberg said.
With EFE information
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