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The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
Trump Is Gaslighting Us
On January 21, 2017, President Donald Trump’s then–press secretary, Sean Spicer, claimed that Trump had drawn the largest ...
As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel worry about the dangers if no one is held accountable.
The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily ... Here are the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared on Signal None of this is funny. If any of this had leaked at the moment Hegseth blathered ...
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could ...
Soon enough, MAGA world would regain its hostile posture and proceed with its requisite smearing of the messenger. Trump repeated his false claim that The Atlantic is going out of business. Hegseth ...
This week, The Atlantic reported that Trump officials shared military-attack plans in a Signal group chat and inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Panelists ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth again on Tuesday dodged questions about whether the information he put in a Signal group ...
A report on Sunday revealed the phone error months earlier that eventually led to a journalist being added to a secret ...
President Donald Trump said he pushed his so-called Liberation Day from yesterday to today to avoid April Fool’s Day—“because then nobody would believe what I said.” Now, instead of falling on a date ...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides ... about classified information—they were a way for Trump to signal (no pun intended) to a tranche of voters that he hated ...