Donald Trump’s team has been left red-faced after classified information was shared to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine following a ‘huge security failure’
The shocking leaked war plan messages from Donald Trump’s team could expose a major problem for the US President, an expert told The Mirror, after the White House’s top brass sensationally added The Atlantic Magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a top secret Signal chat.
He was added to the classified discussions regarding strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and watched the messages roll in as the military action was carried out. Key Trump players in the chat included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, Trump chief-of-staff Susie Wiles and national security advisor Mike Waltz.
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On March 13, Goldberg said he received a notification from Waltz asking him if he wanted to join the “Houthi PC small group” on Signal. A subsequent message, again from Waltz, read: “Team – establishing a principles [ sic ] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours.
“My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening. Pls provide the best staff POC from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thx.”
One expert believes some of the messages could be perceived as “sarcastic” or “patronising” – presenting a problem for Trump that nobody is talking about. Body language expert Judi James told The Mirror: “We like to think our world leaders and their teams will sit around polished wood tables pushing their negotiations and planning via intellect and seasoned charisma.
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“Not plotting with the briefest of one-word sentences or even one word responses that would be read according to the tone and mood the reader imagines rather than what was intended.
“Might ‘JV’s’ ‘Excellent’ have been sarcastic? Or the ‘Good job Pete and your team’ been patronizing? Should the ‘The team in MAL did a great job as well’ be read with a tone of aggrieved whine? Or was it a genuine pat on the back?
“Remember one new CEO of a large company who messaged the entire workforce to say, ‘Well done team’ and sparked a rash of paranoia as employees tried to work out if he was being sarcastic and about to force redundancies.”
Judi also noted how some of the messages expose problems within how Trump’s team actually operates. She went on: “The ‘As I heard it the president was clear: green light’ shows how unreliable other forms of communication can be: if Trump was ‘clear’ why add the ‘As I heard it’ unless you’re not sure of the message?
“And if you’re not sure, why pass it on? The rest of that message contains suggestions and plans that sound so utterly important to other countries as well as the US that seeing then compressed into a handful of non-context words is scary.”
