'I Know Nothing': Trump On His Officials Mistakenly Adding Journalist To Yemen War Plans Group
The US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat with top American officials discussing strikes against Yemen's Houthis, the White House confirmed.
US President Donald Trump said he knew ‘nothing’ about his defence officials mistakenly sharing Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a group chat.
The US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and other top American officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen’s Houthis, the White House confirmed on Monday.
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‘I know nothing about the incident. I am not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it is a magazine going at a business. I don’t know anything about it, you are telling me about it for the first time," Trump said to the reporter as he questioned him regarding the incident.
Donald Trump said he knows ‘nothing’ about his defence officials mistakenly sharing Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic’s editor. pic.twitter.com/2Y4YOjUUkw— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 24, 2025
The incident came to light after The Atlantic magazine published a story written by editor Jeffrey Goldberg which said that “US national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling."
‘Nobody Was Texting War Plans’: Secretary Hegseth
While being questioned about the claims of The Atlantic journalist being added to the Yemen war plans group, the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth called Jeffrey Goldberg “a deceitful" and “highly discredited so-called journalist".
Hegseth was adamant that the sensitive “war plans" were not discussed in a Signal chat group that inadvertently included a journalist and said, “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that."
. @SecDef response to the @TheAtlantic article….“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited “so-called journalist" pic.twitter.com/pLtcUF4ZtN
— DOD Rapid Response (@DODResponse) March 24, 2025
Journalist Rejects Secretary Hegseth’s Claims
After Secretary Hegseth argued that “nobody was texting war plans", The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg responded saying, “That’s a lie. He was texting war plans, he was texting attack plans."
“When targets were going to targeted. How they were going to be targeted. Who was at the targets. When the next sequence of attacks was happening. I didn’t publish this…because it felt like it was too confidential," Jeffrey Goldberg to CNN.
Trump Officials ‘Mistakenly’ Add Journalist To Secret Signal Group
Top Trump administration officials mistakenly disclosed war plans in a messaging group that included a journalist shortly before the US attacked Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis, the White House said on Monday after The Atlantic posted a story regarding this online.
The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in the story mentioned that the material in the text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing".
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