By Molly Goddard
2:28am PDT, Mar 27, 2025
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National Security Adviser
Mike Waltz is addressing the group text scandal head-on.
During a Tuesday, March 25, interview with Fox News'
Laura Ingraham, the member of
Donald Trump's administration appeared to take the fall for the person who accidentally added
The Atlantic editor
Jeffrey Goldberg to a chain discussing military operations in Yemen. However, he raked the journalist over the coals for publicizing the mistake.
Join us to read about Waltz's scathing take-down of Goldberg…
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Despite President Donald Trump's theory that a "lower level" member of Michael Watlz's staff was responsible for putting Jeffrey Goldberg in the group message with 18 other administration members, the former Army
Special Forces officer claims that was not the case.
"Well, look, a staffer wasn't responsible," Waltz told Laura Ingraham during their sit-down. "Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated."
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When Laura Ingraham questioned Michael Waltz on how Jeffrey Goldberg's number got into the mix, the official gave a clear
explanation — and did not mince words.
"Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else's number there?" he asked the host. "So, of course I didn't see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened by some other technical means is something we're trying to figure out."
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Michael Watlz didn't hold back when dissing Jeffrey Goldberg — whom he labeled "vile" — for going
public with the mishap in an article as a potential political take-down.
"I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys and gone to Russia hoax, gone to just all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States and he's the one that somehow gets on somebody's contact and then gets sucked into this group," Waltz said of the journalist.
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Michael Waltz revealed DOGE specialist
Elon Musk will be helping the White House figure out the glitch to keep information more confidential in the future — and he couldn't resist a parting shot at Jeffrey Goldberg.
"I just talked to Elon on the way here. We've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened," he said. "But I can tell you for 100% — I don't know this guy. I know him by his horrible reputation. And he really is the bottom scum of journalists."
