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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6088790" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/trump-signal-war-plans-texts-waltz.html[/URL]<h3>Trump defends national security chief Waltz after Signal texts about Houthi strike sent to reporter</h3>&quot;President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was not upset with national security advisor Michael Waltz after he reportedly added a journalist to a text thread in which top officials discussed pending military strikes.“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call when asked if he still had confidence in his top national security aide.Asked how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, came to be included in a text thread that included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump blamed a lower-level staffer.“It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there,” the president said.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6088790, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/trump-signal-war-plans-texts-waltz.html[/URL] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5]Trump defends national security chief Waltz after Signal texts about Houthi strike sent to reporter[/SIZE][/HEADING] "President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was not upset with national security advisor Michael Waltz after he reportedly added a journalist to a text thread in which top officials discussed pending military strikes. “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call when asked if he still had confidence in his top national security aide. Asked how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, came to be included in a text thread that included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Trump blamed a lower-level staffer. “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there,” the president said." [/QUOTE]

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