In spite of all the controversy, Trump stood alongside his national security adviser

“Michael Waltz learned a lesson; He is a good man. “

Trump’s statements were his first official statements since the release of the security gap, in which Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was unintentionally added to a group dialogue in a private messaging program in which programs for military attacks in Yemen were discussed.

Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the “no effect” had had no effect on military operations. When asked about what was told about how Goldberg was added to the signal chat, Trump said, “His name was on the list of Michael’s numbers.”

He told his team that he was not disappointed with the events leading to the Atlantic story. Trump said the situation was “only a defect in the past two months and it turned out that it was not a serious problem.”

The Atlantic story on Monday created a wave of shock throughout Washington. Democratic lawmakers in numerous letters called on the White House to responds, one of which calls the situation a “amazing approach to national security” by a group of Senate Democrats. Senior Democrats of Armed Services, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and US House of Representatives wrote a separate letter on other issues in which senior officials discussed national security issues “using signal messaging service or any other messenger service program that was not approved for transferring information”.

White House officials defended the conversation, and Defense Minister Pete Hegst claimed Monday that “no one had sent SMS for war programs.” White House spokesman Caroline Liwit also claimed that war plans were not discussed and “no classified material has been sent”. He added: “As the National Security Council announced, the White House is investigating how Goldberg’s number is inadvertently added.”

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