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Trump probably indicates trouble about chat affair internally
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The US government continues to pursue the affair about the explosive signal group chat. President Trump has now made his attitude clear again. But there is a new contradiction.
US President Donald Trump does not want to dismiss anyone about secret government information in a chat group because of the affair. “I don’t fire people for fake news and witch hunts,” said Trump in an NBC interview on Saturday. When asked if he still had confidence in his national security advisor Mike Waltz, Trump said that he had that. This also applies to Defense Minister Pete Hegseth.
Waltz had probably accidentally invited to a chat group in the “Atlantic” editor-in-chief “Atlantic” editor-in-chief “Atlantic” editor-in-chief of an upcoming attack on the Huthi militia in Yemen. Hegseth gave detailed information about weapons and attack times in the chat. After publishing the chat by the “Atlantic”, Waltz said that he had no contact with Goldberg and also did not know how his number got into his address book.
Goldberg: Not true that we have never met
Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg clearly contradicted this in another NBC interview. Waltz tells everyone that he never met or spoke to him, Goldberg said. “It’s just not true. I understand why he is doing it, but you know that the situation has become a bit absurd. There are no excuses here. My number was on his phone. He accidentally added me to the group chat.” Trump and Waltz insulted Goldberg as a scum and bad journalists.
Meanwhile, the “New York Times” reported that Trump was not as firmly standing as his security advisor as he publicly claims. “Should I fire him?” He is said to have asked his consultants. He also said confidants that he was dissatisfied with all the reporting on the chat affair, but he did not want to give the impression that he gave the media to the pressure.
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