“They invite me to this Signal conversation and now they attack me, I don’t understand it,” the BBC tells the BBC journalist and editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg that has become the last two days of his government’s target Donald Trump Since he made it known that high -ranking White House security advisers had included him in a confidential conversation on the Signal Network on the attack of US military forces in Houthi in Yemen.
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is constantly “fire” with Donald Trump describing him as “lost“And”unethical». National Security Advisor Mike Walts, who accidentally added Goldberg to group chat He described him as a “liar” and a “dying”. The White House has accused him, more or less, that he was responsible for entering the discussion.
White House spokesman Caroline Levit said Atlantic Goldberg’s editor -in -chief “hates Trump” calling him ‘Trump’s fanatic’ and Democratic.
Talking to BBCJeffrey Goldberg describes how everything started and how he came to the center of the world from day to day. It all started when he received a message on his phone through the public available Signal messaging application, popular between journalists and government officials. An account named after Waltz had sent him a message, with himself assuming he was a farce.
“He asked me to talk. I said yes. And the next thing I know is that I found myself in this very curious talk group with the United States National Security Leadership »
Goldberg revealed that he has met Wold many times but refused to refer to details of their relationship.
“It may obviously say whatever it wants, but I’m not commenting on my relationship or non -relationship,” Goldberg told me. “As a reporter, I just don’t feel comfortable talking publicly about relationships that I may have or not have with people who are news creators.”
Commenting on Goldberg the fact that the top security adviser asked Elon Musk to investigate how the mistake happened: “Really, you will ask Elon Musk how does someone’s phone number ends up on someone’s phone? I mean you know, most of the 8 -year -old kids could understand it, “he said.
From the first moment it became known that Goldberg was added to the high -level debate, the Trump government insisted in every way that the controversial talks did not include confidential military evidence. The magazine group contacted the US services involved in the group conversation by asking if they had objected to the publication of the texts. Some responded that they had actually objected, but the magazine decided to proceed with the publication of the messages. Asked about the decision to eventually publish the conversations, the author of The Atlantic replied:
‘Once the Donald Trump said there is nothing noun Let’s just see here and just Tulle Gabard and John Ratclifte said there is no sensitive information, there is no confidential information, etc. – We felt that, hmm, we disagree, “he said. “They say this, and we are the ones we have the texts, so maybe people should see them,” he said.
‘If the Peak Hegsheththe Minister of Defense sends me a message, telling me that there was going to be an attack on Yemen – telling me what kind of aircraft to use, what kind of weapons to be used and when the bombs fall two hours after receiving the text – this seems to me sensitive information.
President Trump expressed his support for Defense Minister Pitt Hegshez on Wednesday, saying he “does a great job” and described Goldberg as “slimy”. However, again the journalist was not overwhelmed by comments as this is not the first time he has accepted Trump’s rage.
The 2020 He published an article in The Atlantic where senior soldiers said Trump had referred to fallen US soldiers as “suckers” and “losers”, something that the president and his government strongly denied.
“This is their movement. You never defend, you just attack, “Goldberg said. “Well, I’m sitting there and dealing with my jobs. They invite me to this conversation of Signal and now they attack me, I don’t understand it. “
On the fact that Trump is currently refusing to resign despite Goldberg’s intense pressures, he says: “If you are a leader of the Air Force, you are currently working with the CIA and the State Department, and you have been handled by you? Wouldn’t they have been expelled you? “
Goldberg claims that at some point he left the debate on his own.
“A piece of myself would like to see what else is going on there. But there are many different issues related to the law and ethics and all sorts of other issues to which I can really not go into it, “he said.
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