The leading man this week led a prominent journalist who was unexpectedly included in a panel chat by senior Trump administration officials to discuss the attack on Houthis in Yemen.
That journalist, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, found himself facing bubble attacks on Trump’s track, including the president himself, reports and allegations against him in the past, and he is a partisan actor in a strange media story that, despite this, is a strange media story that is unfolding on familiar lines.
Goldberg sparked a fire when he first published his story on Monday About being inadvertently included In a signal chat with National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, about plans to attack Houthis. The chat includes Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and several other senior figures.
Posting his story and accusing the Trump administration of suffering an embarrassing security violation did not win his friends on high ground. Goldberg has been a high-profile media figure for decades, and he served as an interviewer for President Barack Obama during his administration to discuss foreign policy.
President Trump criticized Jeffrey Goldberg, who was criticizing the Atlantic Ocean, inadvertently commented on high-level discussions on military operations in Yemen after reporting on an executive group chat. (Brendan Smialowski / Contributor | tasos katopodis / stringer)
Trump administrator announces Atlantic signal article “scam” to remove rhetoric of “war plan”
“Arguably no one in the media prefers to create and push scams than Jeffrey Goldberg,” Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week, calling him an “anti-Trump hater” and accusing him of pushing a fake story about the president Donald Trump Belittle soldiers as “losers and suckers”, etc.
Trump’s story in the 2020 election was published, in which he devalued the veterans of the deceased in this way, and he fiercely fought for the Atlantic claim.
“I happened to know that guy was a complete sleazebag,” Trump told Goldberg this week. “The Atlantic is a failed magazine and did a very, very poor job.
In another interview this week, Trump said: “He is a sleazebag at the highest level. His magazine failed. I think it will go bankrupt soon.”
Under Goldberg, the Atlantic recognized Hillary Clinton as president in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020 and Kamala Harris in 2024, with only the third, fourth and fifth presidents in the magazine’s history. Over the years, the magazine has printed heterogeneous views on many topics, but its official position to Trump is hostile, calling him one of the “most intimate and politically dangerous and politically dangerous candidates in history.”
Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. (Getty image of Jemal Countess/Atlantic)
Senior DEM senator demands Hegseth to resign, not signal chat leak
Senior Trump officials involved in the story also followed Goldberg.
When discussing the leak, Waltz called Goldberg a “loseman” and said he took full responsibility.
Heggs said Goldberg was a “deceptive and highly shameful so-called journalist who worked as a fraudster again and again, and also “selling garbage.” He also said there was no spread of war plans or confidential information in the chat.
After Goldberg initially retained some of the characteristics he characterized, the overly sensitive material that he shared in the thread, The rest of the posts On Wednesday, he called it Yemen’s “attack plan.” Vice President JD Vance said Goldberg “oversold” his profile.
“There is a clear interest in publicly disclosing information that Trump advisers include in non-very communication channels, especially as high-level administration figures try to downplay the importance of the information shared,” Goldberg and journalist Shane Harris wrote.
Trump’s harsh words on Goldberg are certainly not surprising In view of mutual confrontation Between the government and most of the media, but whether a familiar script works in neutralizing the story is another matter.
Pete Hegseth spoke after he was sworn in as U.S. Secretary of Defense on January 25, 2025 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House in Washington, DC. (Photography by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Atlantic journalists publish more texts about attacking Houthi targets
A former Atlantic employee told Fox News numbers, “It’s outrageous that anyone will attack him.” “I think it’s going to be the public, leading soldiers and Republicans, escaping, ‘lie’ about this group [doing] What is sent is obvious – the urge to kick Goldberg looks annoying, while the leader is unclear. It looks small and small. ”
Another media writer says Trump has proven offensive media It is an effective strategy, although they added that Trump’s treatment of journalists “far beyond typical hostility to the press.”
“The media’s overreaction to his presidency ultimately sparked the most serious public suspicion of the media and its prejudice,” they told Fox News Digital. “For these reasons, I don’t think this is a failed strategy for the White House. Trump’s combination of attacks on the press and the power of information means that Americans no longer have a common reality.”
They added: “All Americans should want a media that is not afraid to challenge the U.S. government. We are in dangerous territory when free media feels pressure to avoid the pressure to treat the world’s most powerful political institutions.”
The White House said the Atlantic initial statement was that the Trump team shared the initial statement of the “war plan” and officials have been touting that the actions against Houthi terrorists have achieved great success regardless of the chat defeat.
That has not stopped Democrats and Trump administration critics from calling for waltz and Heggs resigns and investigated their alleged illegal security violations that could endanger U.S. service personnel.
The Atlantic issued a sharp statement Wednesday in response to Trump’s verbal war.
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“Trying to demean and discredit the Atlantic Ocean, our editors, our reports follow an obvious script by elected officials and other people in power who are hostile to journalists and the First Amendment rights of all Americans,” a spokesperson said.
A spokesman told Fox News Digital Numbers, “The Trump administration is trying to keep the attention away from what its officials do by focusing on semantics and attacks on the Atlantic. We report what happened. We have now released the signal information for everyone to read. This national security loophole is something the Trump administration needs to answer.”
