US President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed the casual joints of a journalist to chat a group as a “mess” about Yemen Air Strike and stood by his top national security team despite amazing violations.
Trump’s administration on Monday faced a growing pressure after a report about the conversation by Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of Atlantic Magazine.
A conversation over the attacks on Iran -backed Huthi rebels consisted of some senior administration officials, including Defense Secretary PT Hegaseth, Vice President JD Wance and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
Trump, who returned to the office in January, told broadcaster NBC in a phone interview that the violation was “the only mess in two months, and it was not a serious.”
The President said that his top security officer Waltz at the White House has “learned a lesson, and he is a good man.”
Goldberg said he received a connection request to the user known as Michael Waltz on the signal. Trump, however, said that “This was one of Michael’s people on the phone. An employee had his own number there.”
The White House on Monday, after confirming the violation on Monday, pushed more forcefully on two days of the scam.
Press Secretary Karolin Levitt said in a post on X that “no ‘war plan’ was discussed” and “no classified material was sent to thread”.
He also attacked Goldberg as “famous for his sensational spin”.
With any experience running a huge organization like Pentagon, Fox News host Hegseth also said late Monday that “no one was texting the war plans.”
But the top Democrats condemned the violation, saying that it was potentially illegal and calling for an inquiry why officials were using commercially available apps for sensitive discussions.
Lewitt said that the office of the White House lawyer has provided guidance on several different platforms for the top officials of President Trump, so that they can communicate as safe and efficiently. “
The White House was also seeing how the Goldberg’s number was inadvertently added to Thread. ,
‘European free-loading’
Trump announced a strike on Huthis on 15 March, but Goldberg said he had advance information through group chat.
Two other officials on the chat, National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA head John Ratcliffe, were to talk to the US Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.
Panel’s Republican Chair, Senator Tom Cotton told Fox and friends on Tuesday that the issue of group chat “will come” at the hearing.
“John Ratcliffe, Tulsi Gabbard and other leaders will have a chance to address it, but I hope we focus on the decisive action that the President took against these bandits in Yemen against these bandits,” Cotton said.
Journalist Goldberg said he was added to group chat two days before Yemen attacks, and messages from other top government officials who would work on the issue.
If Goldberg had already promoted the details of the plan, the leaks could have been highly harmful, but they did not do so.
But the report revealed what the report thinks about the top officials of the White House.
A man, identified as Vance, expressed doubts about executing the attacks, stating that he hates “to take out Europe”, as the countries were more influenced by the Huthi attacks on shipping than in the United States.
The contributors, known as Hegseth and Waltz, sent both messages that only Washington had the ability to pursue the strike, the head of the Pentagon said that he shared Vance’s “hatred of European free -loading” and called the European people “pathetic”.
Hathi rebels, who have controlled many of Yemen for more than a decade, are part of the “axis of resistance” of pro -Iran in protest against Israel and the United States.
He launched scores of drone and missile attacks on ships passing through the Red Sea and Yemen in the Gulf of Aden during the Gaza War, stating that he was done in solidarity with Palestinians.
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