LOS ALAMITOS, Calif– On Mar. 16, 2025, President Trump ordered American military attacks on a terrorist group in Yemen that left 53 people killed and 98 injured. The attacks were conducted after several meetings involving Trump and national security aides, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to ABC.

Although it would appear that these high-level individuals would be the only ones who would know about the attack, so would an unlikely witness. Ironically, national security adviser Mike Waltz had added a journalist, Jeffery Goldberg, the editor and chief of The Atlantic, to a Signal chat dedicated to the Yemen attack plans.

Goldberg removed himself from the chat, then revealed his presence in his Atlantic article “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”. Goldberg revealed how he was added to a Signal chat with government officials, where they showed their plans for the attacks on Yemen, unaware that Goldberg was present. 

Goldberg has since published screenshots with all the Signal messages after the White House said the information wasn’t classified. This includes messages from Hegseth, who listed the timeline of the attacks in the text chain.

“THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMB WILL DEFINITELY DROP,” said Hegseth in the chat.

During a meeting, congressman Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida drew a fist bump, American flag, and flame emoji on a poster board, mocking the same message Mike Walz sent in the Signal chat. 

“From now on, when we do things were like we agree, I’ll just hold this up rather than giving a really big long speech, so job well done, guys,” said Moskowitz.

National Security Advisor Mike Walz has faced global criticism for adding Goldberg to the chat. Meanwhile, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who were both members of the chat, were questioned over a two-day period of Congressional testimony.

“The egregious actor here is Hegseth,” a former senior intelligence official told CNN. “He’s in the bullseye now because he puts all this out on a Signal chat.”

Hegseth has continued to deny that any confidential information was shared with the Trump administration claiming that the chat was hacked. To add Goldberg to the Signal chat Walz must have already had Goldberg’s number saved. Walz has said that Goldberg’s number must have been “sucked into” his phone.

“It was Mike, I guess, I don’t know,” Trump said when asked about who was responsible for the chat. “I think it’s all a witch-hunt”.

A judge released an order for those involved in the Signal chat to “promptly make best efforts to preserve all Signal communications from March 11-15, 2025.” As well as detailing what they did to preserve the messages. The White House has said that it will comply with the judge’s order.

The White House has now said “case closed” on an investigation into Walz adding Goldberg to the Signal chat.

Trump is unwilling to fire anyone involved in the Signal chat according to The Guardian. Since Walz has accepted responsibility for adding the Atlantic Editor and Chief to the Signal chat he has since gained public support from the president. 

“The president has been less interested in the possibility of the plans having been classified or the fact that they were shared in an unclassified commercial app, than the fact that Waltz had the number of the editor-in-chief of a magazine that Trump despises,” a White House official told The Guardian.