Stormy was the update of the journalist by the press spokesman, Caroline Levit to the White House Regarding the e-mail of the US Department of Defense through the Signal application.
White House spokeswoman Caroline Levit has received a “bombing” of questions during the regular briefing of journalists about the case that has been monopolizing the interest of US media in recent hours.
It is recalled that The Atlantic magazine has released the US attack on Yemen’s rebels, which was accidentally revealed to a journalist.
The report includes messages by US Secretary of Defense Pitt Hegschez with the exact hours of the attacks on Houthi, before they take place.
“No war plans were discussed,” Levit said, and immediately targeted the editor of “The Atlantic”, Jeffrey Goldberg, calling him “Trump’s fanatic hater“And democratic.
After The Atlantic published purported Yemen strike details from Signal chat, White House press sec. Karoline Leavitt described thread as “a policy discussion, a sensitive policy discussion, surely, amongst high-level Cabinet officials and senior staff.” https://t.co/05gnFtowbn pic.twitter.com/peeRsxeqfM
— ABC News (@ABC) March 26, 2025
Levit also criticized Goldberg’s career as a reporter, including covering the war in Iraq and the 2016 elections.
Trump is ready to “face this story”
In her information to reporters, Caroline Levit said Trump told her that she would “face this story” and that she wanted to deal with the scandal.
He stressed that the Signal application is an “approved application” that the Ministry of Defense and the CIA have “loaded” government phones because it is “safe”.
The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt accuses The Atlantic publication of ‘playing word games’ and putting a ‘sensationalist spin’ on the US security leak. https://t.co/TC2ROCL7wW
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A journalist said the thread of text messages contained in detail the exact time of the planned attacks before taking place, as well as some of the military media that were to be used, asking the White House spokesman how he would call this debate, if not “war plans”.
In response, a White House spokesman noted that the texts contained “sensitive policy discussions”, adding that the conversation should reassure the American people for the “dynamic” military team and Trump’s intelligence group.
In addition, he again stated that “no war plan” was discussed and that “no secret material” was sent to the group conversation.
KAITLAN COLLINS of CNN disrupts the daily White House press briefing — refusing to accept that Karoline Leavitt isn’t taking a second question from her. pic.twitter.com/mar9kjUd7O
– The Washington Observer (@washobserver) March 26, 2025
Under pressure from questions, Levit said that National Security Advisor Mike Walts – the one who allegedly added the editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” in the Signal messaging thread – took responsibility for the mistake.
However, he made it clear that President Trump “continues to have confidence in his national security team”.
He then insisted on what both US President and Defense Minister Pitt Hegshez said that “none of them were confidential”.
In fact, Levit did not hesitate to ask the same question to the journalists:
“Do you trust the Minister of Defense, who was proposed for this role? Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a well -known Democratic journalist who hates Trump? “, While launching a new attack on his editor -in -chief” The Atlantic “, who was accidentally added to a group conversation where top US officials discussed.
“We are not going to take lessons on national security and US troops from the Democrats in the dominant media that turned the other cheek with the Biden government because of their incompetence,” he said.
Specifically, Levit pointed out the US deadly departure from Afghanistan in 2021, claiming that Biden believed the operation was “acceptable”.
“Musk will help to understand how the journalist was added”
Indeed, a White House spokesman revealed that they would address Elon Musk “to help understand how the journalist was added to Signal’s conversation”.
Musk will “understand how this number was accidentally added” to Signal’s conversation, “he explained, stressing that he would” help it to ensure that this will never happen again “.