Report: White House Review Says Michael Waltz Accidentally Saved Jeffrey Goldberg’s Number in His Phone

A White House review has reportedly discovered how an Atlantic editor’s number got added to National Security Adviser Michael Waltz’s phone and later added to a private group chat with the Trump administration’s top national security officials.

The Guardian reported Sunday that Brian Hughes, a then-Trump campaign spokesman who is now a National Security Council spokesman, had copied and pasted an email query from Goldberg during the 2024 presidential campaign — which included Goldberg’s contact number — and texted it to Waltz, who then accidentally saved the number in his phone under Hughes’ contact information.

Goldberg’s number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, the review found.

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