Trump defends national security chief Waltz after Signal texts about Houthi strike sent to reporter

KEY POINTS

• President Donald Trump said he was not upset with national security advisor Michael Waltz for reportedly adding a journalist to a Signal thread with top officials discussing military plans.

• “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump told NBC News in a phone call when asked about the bombshell revelation published in The Atlantic a day earlier.

• The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been added by to a Signal thread called the “Houthi PC small group.”

Yes, these are the key points. DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. Like why this happened.