Trump says someone may have 'screwed up' as Atlantic releases full leaked Signal chat sharing strike details
the Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials. The 'leaked' group chat shows Trump's Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States.
Trump says 'someone screwed up'
The Atlantic magazine has published the full exchange of real-time messages between senior White House officials as the US conducted the strikes. The texts were published as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said no classified information was posted to the Signal chat.
The magazine initially did not publish all the messages to avoid revealing classified information, but Goldberg said White House claims he was lying prompted him to disclose the entire exchange.
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President Donald Trump is so far today continuing his claims that nothing in the encrypted chat that was leaked could have «compromised» the attack plans in Yemen, though he did say that a member of his team may have «screwed up».
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Speaking over the phone on the conservative Vince Show, Trump said: “There weren’t details, and there was nothing in there that compromised and it had no impact on the attack, which was very successful."
But, he told BBC: “Somebody in my group either screwed up, or it’s a bad signal,” he said. Trump has so far stood by his officials and has claimed the incident has been blown out of proportion.
Trump on Tuesday dismissed the accidental addition of a journalist to a group chat about Yemen air strikes as a «glitch» and stood by his top national