Fox’s Will Cain Deploys New Line of Attack Against Jeffrey Goldberg, Claims Journalist Had ‘Obligation’ To Leave Secret Group Chat

Fox News host Will Cain said Jeffrey Goldberg, who had the scoop of a lifetime fall into his lap, had an obligation to extricate himself from the situation.

On Monday, Goldberg published a bombshell story in The Atlantic in which National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had inadvertently added him to a Signal group chat of top Trump administration officials. Goldberg soon observed the officials – including Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth discussing forthcoming airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

“I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts,” Goldberg wrote. “What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”

The Trump administration responded by lashing out at Goldberg even though, as Fox News’s Brit Hume pointed out, “he didn’t do anything wrong here.”

On Thursday’s edition of The Will Cain Show, the host forged a new critique of Goldberg while calling his scoop “one of the most overhyped and oversold stories of the last several years.”

The host went on to say Goldberg should have taken it upon himself to leave the chat:

He got invited, apparently, perhaps, maybe, he got included in a private group deliberation. Now, if you or I get invited to a party that we really weren’t supposed to be at, we didn’t get an invitation we’d politely excuse ourselves. Maybe that makes light of the situation. Improper disclosures are always made in the legal world, private filings, information you shouldn’t receive sometimes sent over email to the wrong person. Lawyers bow out, announce their presence, and say it’s time to move on.

We saw none of that here with Jeffrey Goldberg. Instead, he sat around under the implausible rationale that he wanted to find out if it was real. He never bowed out. He never announced himself. Instead, the first the world heard of it is when he published what he claimed to be classified documents and overhyped and oversold as war plans. [Author’s note: Goldberg never published what he claimed were “classified documents.” After his story broke, Trump officials insisted that none of the information leaked to Goldberg was classified, which prompted him to publish the attack plans he received with a redaction.]

Is there not some ethical obligation on Jeffrey Goldberg to announce himself and to leave? He literally is the story. But for his presence, it’s not a story. It’s not as though he uncovered Watergate. He overheard through a wall that happened to matter to national security. His presence is the story. What obligation does Jeffrey Goldberg have to make himself not the story and to leave what he knows is a private and important deliberation among President Trump’s top cabinet?

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