On Tuesday night, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz went on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show to, uh, clarify, how the editor of The Atlantic got added to a Signal message chain in which the planning for an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen was done.
It went poorly.
“I just talked to Elon [Musk] on the way here, we’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened,” Waltz said. “But I can tell you 100 percent — I don’t know this guy [Goldberg] … I don’t text him. He wasn’t on my phone.”
I find this almost impossible to believe.
Because Occam’s Razor. And here is the simplest explanation for how Waltz (or a senior staffer) accidentally included Goldberg:
Waltz was a member of Congress from Florida before being NSA. He was interested in national security matters. He was ambitious. He was part of the DC scene. As was Goldberg.
They met at some point and Goldberg told Waltz that if he ever needed him or had anything worth sharing he could contact him — discreetly via Signal.
Waltz added Goldberg’s Signal handle to his phone. Or to the phone of a senior aide.
Accidents happen.
Right? Like doesn’t that make a hell of a lot more sense than some secret mission by some shadowy group to add Goldberg to a Signal chain? Why Goldberg? Why this chain? And how the hell did “they” do it?
Like, come on. It’s obvious what happened here.
Why doesn’t Waltz own up to it? Well because Donald Trump hates the Atlantic and Goldberg in particular. (Remember that Goldberg is the guy who reported that Trump referred to dead servicemen as “suckers” and “losers.”)
So Waltz doesn’t want to admit he knows Goldberg and may have even corresponded with him. Because that makes him part of the Washingtons swamp in Trump’s eyes.
I give you this from Politico this morning:
President Donald Trump was upset when he found out that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally included a journalist in a group chat discussing plans for a military strike. But it wasn’t just because Waltz had potentially exposed national security secrets.
Trump was mad — and suspicious — that Waltz had Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s number saved in his phone in the first place, according to three people familiar with the situation, who were granted anonymity to discuss private conversations.
It’s all starting to make sense right?
The ass-covering here is truly epic. And this story isn’t going away — especially since The Atlantic just published the transcript of the Signal chain…
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