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The inclusion of The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in Donald Trump’s group chat on Signal that discussed highly confidential war plans, is not new information now. Goldberg was not only part of that plan, he also wrote an article on the same, which led to the Democrats asking for an investigation.
However, when Trump was asked about the same, he simply denied knowing anything about the incident. What is interesting here is that he did not mention once that he and his administration will get to the bottom of what happened given the nature of the incident. Given the fact that this can be considered as a security breach, Trump’s behavior appears rather reckless and The New Republic brought in veteran national security lawyer Bradley Moss to talk about the same.
On the podcast The Daily Blast from The New Republic, host Greg Sargent asked Moss to give a better insight into the situation that consisted of Jeffrey Goldberg getting included in a Signal chat that had National security adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among other government officials and talked about “their upcoming plans to bomb Yemen’s Houthis to open up shipping in the Red Sea.”
In response, Moss said, “This is the movie Idiocracy come to life. This is just completely reckless. So, to be clear, what we know so far is that on the commercially available Signal encrypted chat platform, which everybody and anybody in D.C. uses, these various senior officials were discussing a number of things regarding the upcoming attacks they were gonna launch against the Houthis.
