A mistake made by US president Mike Waltz and has caused a political scandal is associated with a certain smartphones.
In March, the US president advisor to the national security added by the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg editor-in-chief, the editor-in-chief in a closed chat on the signal messenger, where the attack on Yemeni Khusitov was discussed, due to the fact that a few months before, he maintained his phone number on an iPhone under the name of someone else. It was out of the time of internal investigation conducted by the White House, the newspaper said The Guardian and CBS News, mentioning the resources. The White House did not comment on it.
A series of mistakes
The internal investigation, which conducted the Department of the White House technology, showed “a series of aggravation of the situation of misses that began during the 2024 campaign and remained unnoticed until Waltz created the chat team last month,” The Guardian wrote.
Resources who are aware of the results of an internal investigation said it all began with the fact that Jeffrey Goldberg in October 2024 asked the Donald Trump election headquarters to comment for an article in which Trump criticized for his words about the injured military.
Additional events, according to resources, developed as follows:
– Trump’s election headquarters sent Goldberg’s letter to after Trump’s press secretary to Brian Hughes;
– Hughes copied Goldberg’s letter, along with a signature block, where the journalist’s phone number was located, and Mike Walza sent him to inform the preparation of the article;
– Walza’s iPhone maintains Goldberg’s phone number, mentioned in the phone number as Brian Hughes’s new number.
After that, like CBS news records, Walz regularly called and sent messages to Hughes. At the same time, the advisor Trump’s phone did not confuse the numbers of Goldberg and Hughes until Waltz ended in Jidd in Saudi Arabia in March (there the United States held negotiations with Russia and Ukraine). The investigation showed that either Walz or Hughes had direct contacts with Goldberg.
No firing
On March 13, Walz tried to add Hughes, a representative of the National Security Council, to the signal chat, where high American officials discussed attacks on Husites, but instead invited Goldberg. Goldberg was under JG’s initials in chat, but none of Trump’s team members noticed it, resources said. According to one of the CBS news interlocutors, the administration did not know that Goldberg was present in a confidential chat until the Atlantic turned to the White House for comments several hours before the publication of its material.
After the incident, Walz said he had never met and did not talk to Goldberg. Participants in the White House’s internal investigation do not know how much Waltz and Goldberg are connected.
According to resources, Donald Trump received the results of an internal investigation in late March, after which he decided not to remove the Walts. According to the Guardian, Trump thought in a short time about dismissal, “but he became more and more angry that Walz was not talking about military operation at a signal, but” he hated the journalist’s phone number. As a result, Trump declined to reject the wwals, as he did not want journalists Walz to think that the public was defending him in connection with the story, which began to be called a signalgate.
Source: korrespondent
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