US President Donald Trump’s administration is under scrutiny for accidentally leaking classified information about an upcoming attack in Yemen on the Houthis to an Atlantic journalist.
While the incident is catastrophic, Trump has had fiery responses up his sleeve to the reporters, and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, took to X (formerly Twitter) to bash out The Atlantic publication like there’s no tomorrow.
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How did the information leak?
Turns out that The Atlantic Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a Signal group chat, seemingly by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
This group chat had top Trump administration officials and they were discussing details concerning an upcoming attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Goldberg saw things he shouldn’t have seen
Goldberg claims that he had seen multiple classified information, including “information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying” just two hours before the bombs struck the targets in Yemen.
Trump was quizzed by reporters about the leak
Trump had reporters over in the White House on Monday, March 25, and they asked him about the classified information leak to Goldberg, to which Trump simply replied: “I don’t know anything about it,” before unleashing an attack on The Atlantic.
Trump knew nothing about it
“I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic; to me it’s a magazine that is going out of business. I know nothing about it,” the US president told the reporters.
When asked further about it, he said: “Well, it couldn’t be very effective,” referring to the accidental leak. “The attack on the Houthis was very effective, I can tell you that,” he continued.
Musk took to X
Musk shared a satirical post by the conservative publication, The Babylon Bee, which read: “4D Chess: Genius Trump Leaks War Plans To ‘The Atlantic’ Where No One Will Ever See Them.”
He quoted the post, saying: “Best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic magazine, because no one ever goes there.”
Goldberg was grateful that it was him who was added
“If they were going to pick an errant phone number, I mean at least it wasn’t somebody who supported the Houthis, because they were actually handing out information that I believe could have endangered the lives of American service people who were involved in that operation,” Goldberg told PBS.
