Trump latest news: Atlantic reveals attack plans shared by officials in group chat – UK Times

Calling the White House’s bluff, The Atlantic released the messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent to a Signal chat group — which inadvertently included Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg — detailing the attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Immediately and unsurprisingly, the denizens of President Donald Trump’s favorite morning talk show dismissed the bombshell revelation as a nothingburger, insisting that Goldberg had “overpromised” when he first reported that Hegseth had shared “war plans” in an unclassified text chain that included a journalist who was randomly added to it.

Trump responded to the leak during a Wednesday appearance on The Vince Show podcast by Vince Coglianese.

Katie Hawkinson and Rhian Lubin report.

House Democrats this morning joined calls for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the Signal app scandal.

“It is completely outrageous to me that administration officials come before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility,” said Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado. He said Pete Hegseth “must resign immediately. There can be no fixes, there can be no corrections until there is accountability.”

Other Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee rejected assertions by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe that no classified material was included in the chat.

They pointed out that chat messages released by The Atlantic on Wednesday as evidence that the exposure could have jeopardized the mission’s success or endangered U.S. service members’ lives.

“This is classified information. It’s a weapon system, as well as a sequence of strikes, as well as details of the operations,” said Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois. “He needs to resign immediately.”

Embattled Republicans scrambled to downplay the severity of the breach after Goldberg’s explosive report detailed how White House National Security adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly invited him to an encrypted chat where top officials discussed an impending U.S. strike in Yemen.

Hours before President Trump attempted to shift the blame to an unidentified “lower level” White House employee, his eldest son targeted Golberg on X.

James Liddell has the story.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says that he continues to support all members of President Donald Trump’s national security team following the staggering security breach generated by their group chat on Signal.

“President Trump and his team have admitted that having a journalist in the group text was wrong, will be reviewed … I believe that all the participants in the chat were under the impression they were using an appropriate and secure form of communication.”

Read Graham’s full statement via X:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, currently on a tour of U.S. bases in the Pacific, has entered the chat (so to speak) and joined the Trump administration’s condemnation of the characterization of what he posted in the Signal group chat as “war plans.”

So, let’s me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called “war plans” and those “plans” include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.

Those are some really shitty war plans.

This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an “attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even close.

As I type this, my team and I are traveling the INDOPACOM region, meeting w/ Commanders (the guys who make REAL “war plans”) and talking to troops.

We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes.

Hegseth was part of the media from 2014 to 2024 when he worked at Fox News.

Illinois Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi: “This text message is clearly classified information. Secretary Hegseth has disclosed military plans as well as classified information. He needs to resign immediately.”

Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, a veteran, says that the Trump administration cannot shrug off the Signalgate scandal by “playing semantics.”

He wrote on X: “They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics.

“Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.”