Trump calls Fallout Signal Chat “Witch Hunting” in the middle of calls on a probe | News Donald Trump
In an interview with oval office journalists, Donald Trump focused on air attacks in Yemen, not chat leaks.
The President of the United States Donald Trump reduced the recent leakage of signal chat as “witch hunting” and said without evidence that the encrypted message exchange application “could be defective” while his administration is fighting for stopping.
When asked by a journalist on Wednesday whether his administration should have more responsibility for chat leakTrump replied, “Press [has] He played. I think it’s a witch hunt. I wasn’t involved in that. I wasn’t there. “
On Monday, Trump’s administration confirmed that a journalist from Atlantic magazine was accidentally involved in a superb conversation about the upcoming attack on Houthis in Yemen.
Following Widespread criticism Of the home democrats, some Republican senators are now inviting a scandal investigation, causing concern about political fall if they are not resolved properly.
Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, said that he and senator Jack Reed – the best Democrat of the Committee – would send a letter to Trump’s administration seeking an accelerated investigation into the General Inspector on the use of a signal sending application.
They also call for classified briefing with a top administration official “who actually has facts and can speak on behalf of the administration,” Wicker said.
“Information, as recently published, it seems to me that such sensitive nature is that, based on my knowledge, I wanted to be classified,” he added.
Asked about a call for a general inspection, Trump replied, “I don’t mind.”
In 2014, Hillary Clinton, who was State Secretary under President Barack Obama, was scored by the Republicans to use a private server E -Ap for communication.
He became one of the biggest conversations in the 2016 presidential election, and Clinton was charged with undergoing national security. Trump beat her.
An endangering error
The Atlantic editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg on Monday published an article describing the amazing realization that he had been added to the group chat with Vice -President JD Vance and Defense Minister Pete Hegseth, as well as others, on plans for involving military attacks in Yemen.
The White House said that the data that are divided through the signal were not classified, the claim that Democrats said that the strains were given that they were contained Sensitive American military plans against Yemen Houthis.
Senator Mark Warner, the highest Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the position that Trump’s administration is placed can be described in one word: “Baloney”.
There are no signs that controversy will soon fade for Trump, who said he was standing next to his national security team and attacked the credibility of the journalist.
At the same time, he clearly clarified his tendency to speak personally about such operations and in safer settings, although it is not yet clear if the changes would be made as a result.
