How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg chat with the signal group that chatted with Trump administration officials?
The simplest explanation is: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz asked Goldberg to save it as a contact in his phone and added him unexpectedly. Indeed, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number was “attracted” from another contact, Goldberg laughed: “This is not a “matrix”.‘”
But according to the guardian Internal investigation The conclusion by the White House Information Technology Office was that something more complicated happened, and the role proposed by the iPhone automatically played a key role: After Goldberg emailed comments about the story, Trump spokesman Brian Hughes texted Walz to the contents of Goldberg’s email.
As a result, Waltz’s iPhone offers a “Contact Recommendation Update” that ultimately saves Goldberg’s phone number under Hughes’ name. Then, when Waltz tried to add Hughes (now the National Security Council spokesperson) to the chat, he was said to end up joining Goldberg.
“I won’t comment on my relationship with Mike Walz, rather than saying I know him and talk to him,” Goldberg said.
