‘This Case Has Been Closed!’ Karoline Leavitt Says the Trump White House is Done With Signalgate

The White House is putting the controversy surrounding a Signal group chat in the rear view mirror, according to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

Since last week, the White House has had to answer for what was widely recognized at one of the more bizarre lapses in national security in recent memory. Prior to the U.S.’s attack on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, several members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet — including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — discussed attack plans on the messaging app Signal. The public only knows about that chat because Waltz somehow accidentally invited The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

While key members of the Trump administration downplayed the severity of the error and instead attacked Goldberg’s credibility as a journalist, there have been calls for the chat to be investigated. During a media gaggle Monday afternoon, Leavitt explained why that wasn’t something the White House was considering.

“As the president has made it very clear, Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of his national security team,” Leavitt said, “and this case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward; and the president and Mike Waltz, and his entire national security team, have been working together very well if you look at how much safer the United States of America is because of the leadership of this team.”

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