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President Donald Trump It seems guilt for the signal chat scandal on National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The president was asked who was responsible for the scandal while signed an executive command on Wednesday night.
“I guess it was Mike. I don’t know, I always thought it was Mike,” Trump told reporters before calling the media’s reaction to the scandal “hunting witch.”
This signifies a significant change in melodies for the president, who blamed someone else for the scandal when he spoke with NBC. During a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Trump said NBC in believed it was “one of Michael’s people on the phone. The staff had his number there.”
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and President Donald Trump took pictures side by side. (Reuters)
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Then the journalist asked if the Minister of Defense was Pete Hegsetth He should be worried about his position in the middle of a scandal, and Trump rushed to defend his cabinet.
“Hegsetth, he did a great job … How to introduce Hegsetth into that? He had nothing to do with it,” Trump said in a response. He also told reporters that he believed the signal, an encoded application for messaging, was “could be defective” in the light of the scandal.
While talking to reporters, Trump rejected the significance of the scandal and instead posted the “incredibly successful” attack, saying that the media should focus on the outcome, not the Chat group.
Trump talks to the media in an oval office in the White House in Washington, DC, March 26, 2025. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
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Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg sent Trump’s White House as he interrupted after The story of a bomb on Monday. Goldberg was inadvertently involved in a signal group with senior administration of Trump administration officials talking about a planned attack on Houthis in Yemen.
Goldberg said he “very strongly doubted chat authenticity. However, after confirming that the actions were discussed in the group, he knew it was real.
Atlantic editor -in -chief said “he had never seen such a violation.” Although Goldberg admitted that it was not uncommon for US officials to use a signal, he said that it was primarily used as a logistical tool, not a place to discuss “immediate war plans”.
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary of Defense Hegset Stand, since US President Donald Trump (not pictured) meets French President Emmanuel Macron (not in the picture), in the White House in Washington, DC, February 24, 2025. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)
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Trump’s administration worked for days to reduce the report, and even asked for a victory when the Atlantic announced the monitoring described by what was discussed as “attack plans”, not “war plans”.
“This whole story was another fraud written by Trump-Gospoder known for its sensationalist spin,” White house Print secretary Caroline Leavitt wrote in the post on X.
Leavitt confirmed to reporters on Wednesday that Elon musk He helped conduct an investigation into leakage of signal chat. However, it is unclear what will happen to those who were considered responsible, because Trump had already said that he would not release Waltz for the scandal.
