Trump set for NewsMax interview after Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ for Signalgate blunder: stay
President Donald Trump has said Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, has no need to apologize for the alarming security breach in which he inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, to a Signal group chat about upcoming military action.
The administration has been under fire after it emerged on Monday that senior officials, also including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Vice President JD Vance, reportedly discussed a highly sensitive operation aimed at targeting Houthi positions in Yemen.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he backed Waltz despite calls for his resignation. In their remarks, they both attacked Goldberg and other journalists for wanting to distract from the successes of his administration.
Hegseth also called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist” but he too is facing calls to step down from Democrats, who have branded the scandal “a major screw-up.”
Two members of the group chat, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee and were extensively grilled on the security breach.
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Has the Signal chat leak exposed a big legal problem for Trump administration?
The stunning revelation that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was inadvertently added to a group chat detailing recent airstrikes in Yemen has called into question the U.S. government’s ability to safeguard sensitive information and has exposed a potentially big legal problem.
Here’s Rhian Lubin to explain.
EDITORIAL: We should not underestimate the historic threat Donald Trump represents – to his country, to the West and to a free press
The United States is fortunate indeed that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic magazine – and the surprise beneficiary of a leak of sensitive military plans – is a man of sound judgement. Had he not been, and had recklessly made public the top-secret details of US attacks on Houthi rebels, then the consequences would have been serious and possibly even fatal for US service personnel.
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Melania Trump’s wedding dress is ‘up for auction’
Melania Trump’s 2005 wedding dress is supposedly up for auction for less than half of what it originally cost her — and it looks completely different.
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Will Pete Hegseth be Trump’s scapegoat as president looks to move on from debacle?
John Bowden writes:
Donald Trump’s irritation over the wall-to-wall coverage of a shocking breach of security at his administration’s highest levels was apparent on Tuesday, as was his desire to push past the narrative.
Congress, under unified Republican control, could do little to help him.
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FBI launches Tesla threats task force to target ‘domestic terrorism’
According to NBC News, at least 80 attacks have been reported against Tesla vehicles since Musk began gutting the federal government through his Department of Government Efficiency in January.
James Liddell reports.
‘You’ve got to give me something’: Judge skeptical over Trump policy ending non-binary passports
A federal judge on Tuesday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration had solid evidence to support its decision to stop issuing passports with a non-binary ‘X’ sex marker.
“You’ve got to give me something, or else I’ll assume there’s nothing,” Massachusetts federal Judge Julia Kobick reportedly said in court in a hearing for a lawsuit challenging the policy, according to Bloomberg Law.
Josh Marcus reports.
Jeffries writes to Trump calling for Hegseth to be fired
New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic Leader in the House of Representatives, has written to President Donald Trump calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be “fired immediately” for his role in the Signalgate group chat debacle.
Florida wants to loosen child-labor laws to make up for loss of migrant workers
Both Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Republican-led legislature are now looking at children as a possible solution to the issue, according to CNN.
Gustaf Kilander reports.
The Signal chat blunder has shaken Washington. Except in the White House where it’s brushed off
One day after the revelation of a shocking security breach from top Trump administration officials, the White House is digging in and hoping it can convince Americans to dismiss the unprecedented lapse as media-driven partisan squabbling even as Democrats are calling for resignations.
Eric Garcia, on Capitol Hill, and Andrew Feinberg, at the White House, report.
Source: independent.co.uk
