Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans’, the Atlantic editor rather pompously declared that he was withholding some of the information he had received on grounds of national security, contrasting his own propriety with the slapdashery of the Trump administration’s national security operation.
As an intelligent man who has spent years trying to undermine Donald Trump and his movement, he must have guessed what the response would be. The President and his team did what Donald Trump always does when attacked: counter punch, hard and wild. They poured scorn on Goldberg, his magazine, and they rejected his claims. ‘Nobody was texting war plans,’ said Pete Hegseth, the Defence Secretary. ‘And that’s all I have to say about that.’
‘There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group’, added Tulsi Gabbard before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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