Atlantic journalist in the center of a leak story faces Fury from Trump, top officials
This week was dominated by the news that a prominent journalist was accidentally involved in the group chat of high -ranking administration officials who discussed the future attack on Houthis in Yemen.
And that journalist, the Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg, found himself facing the glittering attacks from Trump’s orbit, including the president himself, during his past reporting and charges that he is a partisan actor in an unusual media story that still takes place on famous lines.
Goldberg launched a firestorm on Monday when he first published a story about being inadvertent involved On the signal chat of national security adviser Michael Waltz on Houthis attack plans. The conversation was Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense of the Fifth Hegsetth Defense, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe and several other high data.
Publishing his story and accusing Trump administration of unpleasant security violation did not win his friends in high places. Goldberg has been a high media character for decades, and during his administration he was the survey of President Barack Obama to discuss foreign policy.
President Trump criticized Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg after reporting a chat administration that was inadvertently involved in discussing a high -level military surgery in Yemen. (Brendan Smialowski / associate | Tasos Cathopodis / Stringer)
Trump’s press secretary Karolina Leavitt said this week was in the media “There was probably no one in the media who loves to produce and push fraud more than Jeffrey Goldberg,” he called him “Anti-Trump’s hater” and accused him of pushing a false story about the president Donald Trump belittling military members as “losers and boobs”, among other resolutions.
Trump has hot displaced the assertion of the Atlantic that he was belittled by the dead veterans in this way in the story published in the heat of the 2020 election.
“I accidentally know the guy is a total Tobag,” Trump said Goldberg this week. “Atlantic is a failed magazine, it seems very, very bad. No one cursed about it.”
In the second interview this week, Trump said, “He is Sleazebag at the highest level. His magazine fails. In my opinion, he will be out of work.”
Under Goldberg’s guidance, the Atlantic supported Hillary Clinton for the President in 2016, Joe Biden 2020 and Kamala Harris 2024, only the third, fourth and fifth presidential authorizations in magazine history. The magazine has written heterodox views of numerous topics over the years, but his official position towards Trump is hostile, calling him “one of the personal malignant and politically dangerous” candidates in history.
Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg. (Jemal Countess/Getty Pictures for Atlantic)
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Top Trump officials included in the story also passed after Goldberg.
At one point, Waltz called the Goldberg “loser” as he discussed missing, which he said he had taken full responsibility.
Hegsetth said that Goldberg was “a fraudster and a highly discredited so -called journalist who made the profession over and over again” which “who” who “pedestal in the trash” also said they were not war plans or classified data that is not expanding.
Goldberg, after initially denied something of what he characterized as an overly sensitive material that is divided into threads, Published the rest What he called “the plans of the attack” of Trump’s team on Wednesday on Wednesday. Vice President JD Vance said Goldberg “beaten” his material.
“There is a clear public interest in detecting the types of information that Trump’s advisers have included in the insecure communication channels, especially since older administration figures are trying to reduce the importance of split messages,” Goldberg and reporter Shane Harris wrote.
The sharp words of Trump’s team for Goldberg are certainly not wondering Given the intergonism of mutual Between the administration and most of the media, but whether the famous player book was effective in neutralizing the story is another matter.
Pete Hegsetth speaks after sworn in as a new US defense minister of Vice -President JD Vance in the Eisenhower Executive Affairs building at the White House in Washington, DC, January 25, 2025. (Photo Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Atlantic Reporter publishes more texts on the attack on Houthhi goals
“It is uncertain that anyone would attack him,” one former Atlantic employee told Fox News Digital. “I think to the public, the leading demms and Republicans, the stages, ‘lies’ about what this group was [doing] And what they sent was obviously – and the urge to hit Goldberg only a nasty, and unbearable leader. It seems small and small. “
Another media writer said Trump proved the attack the media is an effective strategy, although they have added that Trump’s treatment of journalists “goes beyond typical hostility to the press.”
“The too many response of many in the media to his presidency eventually encouraged the worst doubt to the public about the media and his bias,” Fox News Digital told Fox News. “For these reasons, I think this is not a losetted strategy from the White House. The combination of Trump’s attacks on print and decentralization of information means that Americans no longer share a common reality.”
“All Americans should want a media media that is not afraid to challenge the US government. We are on a dangerous territory when a free press feels pressure to avoid treating the most powerful political body in the world with control,” they added.
The White House announced that Atlantic gave up the initial claim that Trump’s team had shared “war plans”, and officials consistently declared it regardless of chat fiasco, surgery against terrorist Houth was a huge success.
This did not prevent Democrats and Trump’s criticism of administration to call Waltz and Hegsetth to resign and investigations of what they call an illegal violation of security that could endanger the US service members.
The Atlantic announced a sharp statement on Wednesday in response to the war of Trump.
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“Attempts to disparage and discredit the Atlantic, our editor and our reporting follow the obvious book of elected officials and others in the authorities who are hostile to journalists and the rights of the first amendment of all Americans,” said a spokesman.
Reached for an additional comment, a spokesman for Fox News Digital said: “Trump’s administration tries to move attention from what his officials have done, focusing on the semantic and attacks on the Atlantic. We have reported on what happened. We have now published signaling messages to everyone.
