Left-wing news outlet The Atlantic, who has caused such a severe uproar by leaking sensitive information from a Signal group chat concerning war plans for Yemen that our nation’s capital has come to a screeching halt, is now back pedaling on their claims.
Does it really surprise anyone that radical leftists in the media might have stretched the truth a tad about what really happened in this situation? It’s kind of been their modus operandi for quite some time now.
I’m reminded of the whole “Russia, Russia, Russia,” hoax from President Donald Trump’s first term. A whole lot more has gone down since then. The media is always looking for a new angle to attack Trump and the MAGA movement.
“Jeffrey Goldberg, the Canadian-born editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited to join a Signal chat with Vice President J.D. Vance, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and others discussing the imminent bombing of Houthi strongholds in Yemen. In his story, Goldberg claims that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared ‘war plans’ several hours before the bombing began, a term he included in the headline,” Trending Politics News said.
Just a single day after fiery White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the journalist of adding “sensationalist spin” to the report published by The Atlantic, the editorial staff switched up the headline. It now says, “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisors Shared on Signal.”
Eric Daugherty, a conservative journalist, took to X where he explained that the title change completely vindicates Hegseth’s claim that no war plans or classified intelligence was shared with Goldberg. So, you know, the dude’s lying through his teeth.
“THEY’RE BACKPEDALING! The Atlantic just sent out an update report CLARIFYING that there WERE NO WAR PLANS exchanged in that Signal chat… they were (as we all saw) some discussion on the Houthi strikes that Americans knew were coming,” he stated in his post. “This hoax totally fell on its face!”
To be sure, material about the looming mission in Yemen was shared with Goldberg, and it’s still unclear how or why he was invited to the chat group on an app widely utilized by journalists and other individuals seeking to keep their messages encrypted. Although so-called security experts have deemed the use of Signal a significant security lapse, the Biden administration had previously issued guidance encouraging officials “highly targeted” by foreign intelligence services to use the app, according to Fox News.
The president took an opportunity to weigh-in on the controversy Tuesday and downplayed its significance, saying that it “had no impact at all” on the campaign in Yemen, going on to rip deep into The Atlantic by referring to it as “not much of a magazine.” He then expressed his full support for Walz, stating the national security adviser “learned a lesson” from his mistake.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung doubled down on the criticism of The Atlantic later on Tuesday, accusing “anti-Trump forces” at the liberal outlet of trying to “peddle misinformation.”
“From the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax of the first term to the fake documents case of the last four years… at every turn anti-Trump forces have tried to weaponize innocuous actions and turn them into faux outrage that Fake News outlets can use to peddle misinformation,” Cheung said in a post published on X.
If the liberal media’s lips are moving, you can safely bet a million bucks they’re lying.
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