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Waltz: “It said one person and then a different phone number”
Waltz recently told Fox News, “I’m sure everybody out there has had a contact where it said one person and then a different phone number… if you have somebody else’s contact, and then somehow it gets sucked in, it gets sucked in.”
Goldberg later told NBC News that “this isn’t The Matrix. Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones. I don’t know what he’s talking about there.”
Waltz has also denied knowing Goldberg despite a 2021 picture of the two men standing next to each other at an event. Goldberg told The Guardian, “I’m not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz beyond saying I do know him and have spoken to him.”
President Trump and administration officials have claimed that no classified information about war plans was shared with Goldberg. But The Atlantic published texts showing that the Trump administration did send bombing plans to the chat in which Goldberg was included. Specific details about the planned attacks were sent before the bombings by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Other recent reports said that Waltz and a senior aide used personal Gmail accounts for government communications, and that “Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members.”
Waltz has kept his job. The Guardian wrote that Trump was “mollified by the findings of the internal investigation,” and did not want the media “to have the satisfaction of forcing the ouster of a top cabinet official weeks into his second term.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last week that “this case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward.”
“As the president has made it very clear, Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of his national security team,” Leavitt also said.
Senate Armed Services Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) has said the committee will investigate the information leak, and that “it appears that mistakes were made, no question.”
