National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly meant to add a Trump administration spokesman to the Signal chat where detailed attack plans were discussed instead of the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffery Goldberg.
Months before the chat was created, Waltz had saved Goldberg’s number under the name of Brian Hughes, a former Trump spokesman, according to a new Guardian report that cites three people briefed on the situation.
Months later, Waltz reportedly added the contact, which he thought was Hughes but was actually Goldberg, into the Signal chat.
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Waltz first came into contact with Goldberg’s phone number when the journalist reached out to the Trump campaign for comment on an October story. The campaign press team looped in Waltz, at the time their national security surrogate, into the request.
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