The White House defended on Wednesday to contain the controversy of chatting between national security officials who became public, and chose its distinguished united approach, but he left even some Republicans scratching their heads.
After the Atlantic Ocean The published messages From the chat, which was accidentally added, administration officials attacked publishing against publishing and reduced the importance of detection.
Officials have described the title “attack plans” instead of “war plans”, indicating that a slight difference in drafting showed that the controversy was exaggerated. They also did not argue with any specific names, sites or intelligence sources, despite the status of specific military planes, weapons and the timing of strikes.
“I don’t know about underestimating it,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I think it is all a charming chase,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “The attacks were incredibly successful, and this is in the end what you should talk about.”
Trump admitted that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz assumed responsibility for this error, while Defense Minister Beit Higseth said he was “a great job” and “has nothing to do with him.”
However, publishing the subsequent messages and response raised difficult questions for the administration and addressing them for the entire episode. The situation was complicated by a Senate hearing on Tuesday, when the Director of National Intelligence Tolsi Gabbard and the Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe They were designers No secret information was discussed in the sign chat.
Even some Republicans did not buy the challenging White House messages.
“The last revelation about the content of the texts – with no discussion of war plans itself – is actually very sensitive information about a planned and continuous military operation.”
He added: “I still support all members of the National Security Team Trump. The lessons learned.”
However, the head of the Armed Services Committee in the Senate Roger Weis said that he felt the information in the chat. It should have been classified.
Meanwhile, the former Republican Party, Chris Sunono, said that the best thing the White House could do is only “possessing”.
Sonono said in the newspapers: “They are making what should have been a difficult story, gasoline fire for a week,” Sonono said in the newspapers. “The best thing you can do in these situations is that you own it.”
Conservative commentator Tommy Laharin published social media that the administration’s attempts to “reach the heldsmith the hell outta that this signal disaster makes it worse.”
Atlantic first published a story on Monday under the title “The Trump administration has accidentally wrote to me its war plans”, which separated how Goldberg was added to a group chat with many administration officials as they were discussing the details of the planned strike against the Houthi rebels earlier this month.
After the White House spent days reduced the story, chat content and insistence that nothing classified was shared, the Atlantic published on Wednesday an article titled, “Below is the attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared on the reference.”
The messages published on Wednesday showed the Minister of Defense, Beit Higseth, detailing specific types of military aircraft participating in the operation and a specific timing of air strikes.
White House officials settled on a coordinated response early on Wednesday, as they had never in the phrase “attack plans” to discuss that the publication had offended its initial report.
“Nobody sends plans for war,” Higseth said on Wednesday while he was in Hawaii. “There are no units, no sites, no roads, no flight paths, no sources, no roads, no secret information.”
He added: “My job … is to provide updates in the actual time.” “Public updates in the actual time, make everyone aware. This is what I did. This is my job.”
Officials also attacked Goldberg uncompromising, and drew the veteran journalist as a partisan with a intermittent record. They widespreadly emphasized that the operation was eventually successful and was not tightened by inserting Goldberg in the series of messages.
“It is clear that Goldberg is more than he had,” “Vice President JD Vance, who sent messages in chatting and criticized Europe and wondering whether the president was aware of how to contradict strikes in his agenda, was published on X.
White House press secretary Caroline Levitte and a barrage of questions while briefing with journalists on Wednesday about the controversy. She insisted that no secret materials were sent on the topic, although experts said information about an upcoming military operation Rating.
When many journalists sought to move on her answers, Levitt moved, sometimes, to other reporters.
When asked if any administration officials would lose their jobs due to the controversy, Levitt was not explicitly excluded.
“What I can say categorically is what I just spoke to, and still trusts in the national security team,” Levitte said.
The Playbook Trump’s book is usually fighting against any controversy and ritual storm. But the anger is unlikely to disappear over the sign chat any time soon.
Waked and Senator Jacques Reed (RI), the largest democracy in the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on the administration to accelerate an inspector general report in this regard.
The White House also said it achieved how Goldberg was added to the sign chat.
Pallis and Higseth are particularly intense scrutiny.
Waltz appeared in Fox News on Tuesday, where he faced questions about how Goldberg finished in the group. He said he was fully responsible for creating the message, although he claimed that he did not know how Goldberg was included.
While Waltz has friends in the White House and in Capitol Hill, some Trump’s allies suggested that he should be more responsible for the error.
HegSeth is in the spotlight because he was the person who shared a specific timing about Houthi strikes. Democrats and some Republicans have already had concerns about Higseth’s qualifications for the job before confirming it, and the reference controversy is likely to renew those doubts.
But the Trump team is likely to dig in the short term.
White House Communications Director Stephen Cheung responded on Wednesday to a report calling for shooting at the Pallis by calling the sources in the piece, “Nothing is more than the weak travel towers who know nothing about communications/correspondence.”
“They prefer to give the Atlantic and Democrats a victory, instead of fighting,” Cheung posted X. For this reason they are not part of this administration. “