The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Our Editor Their War Plans
It included attack details and even emojis
March 25, 2025
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Episode 119 · March 25, 2025
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Our Editor Their War Plans
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Summary
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, received a connection request on Signal from a “Michael Waltz,” which is the name of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. Two days later, he was added to a group text with top administration officials created for the purpose of coordinating high-level national-security conversations about the Houthis in Yemen. (Read his story here.)
We talk with Goldberg and Shane Harris, an Atlantic national-security reporter, about what it means that this absurd and admittedly relatable thing happened in such a high-stakes situation.
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