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National Security Advisor Michael Waltz Breaks His Silence Over Security Scandal

The spinning has begun when it comes to this week's security breach.

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Monday saw the breaking of a very embarrassing story for the Trump Administration. The Atlantic reported that the upper echelon of the administration had all been discussing high-level war plans on an unsecured Signal channel—and that they had accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg went on to write the story with the headline “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”

By Tuesday, the Trump Administration had launched its campaign of spin.

Michael Waltz, the national security adviser who left Goldberg in the chat, received a vote of confidence from the president earlier in the day. Then, he went on Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show to explain his gaffe and share some conspiracy theories.

Later in the interview, Waltz admits that he was supposed to let someone else in the chat but does not say who. He goes on to state that he had spoken to Elon Musk and that he and his team “have the best technical minds” working on the question.

“How did a Trump-hating editor at the Atlantic end up on your signal chat,” Ingraham asked him.

“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… he’s the guy that somehow, gets on somebody’s contacts and then got sucked into this group,” Waltz said on the show.

However, as reported by Axios, he did say, “I take full responsibility. I built the group … my job is to make sure everything’s coordinated. “

Social media had lots of fun with the situation, which included lots of jokes about O.J. Simpson looking for the real killers:

Photo courtesy of X screengrab

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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