Summary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied allegations that he texted classified war plans to a Signal group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.
The National Security Council confirmed the chat’s authenticity but called the inclusion of Goldberg an inadvertent mistake.
Lawmakers from both parties demanded investigations, with former CIA Director Leon Panetta warning of potential espionage violations.
Hegseth dismissed Goldberg as a “deceitful” journalist. Trump denied knowledge of the incident.
no, it was the carrots. the atlantic journalist just ate lots of carrots. it’s a known vulnerability in signal; I’ve run into it a bunch. when I eat too many carrots, sometimes I just end up in random signal chats. I actually met two girlfriends that way. I don’t even need to try, just happens by accident sometimes when you set me down next to like a ten pound bag a couple times in the same month. it’s nobody’s fault, nobody should be punished, nothing needs to be done about this issue.
Yeah, I think this is right. I don’t even have the signal app on my phone but carrots got me in to a meeting of the board of Coca Cola. It’s definitely carrots.