Timeline: How the Trump administration has shifted its stance on the Signal leak
The Trump administration is still grappling with the revelation from Monday that several senior officials discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen in a Signal chat that inadvertently included The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Trump administration is still grappling with the revelation from Monday that several senior officials discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen in a Signal chat that inadvertently included The Atlantic magazine's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
But as the fallout continues and some allies of President Donald Trump call for national security adviser Michael Waltz, who Goldberg said added him to the chat, to be fired, members of the Trump administration have defended the group chat participants.
A key question that remains is whether any classified information was posted in the chat, something the administration denies. Still, Democrats and former national security officials claim that detailed plans ahead of the attacks sent in the group by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should have been considered classified.
In response to a request for comment for this story, the White House deferred to Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s past remarks.
Here's a timeline of the Trump administration's responses to The Atlantic story since it went live on Monday.
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