Jeffrey Goldberg Fires Back at White House Over ‘Weird’ Spin of Latest Bombshell Report: ‘I Don’t Even Know What That Means’

Isaac SchorrMar 26th, 2025, 9:36 am

The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg joined Morning Joe on Wednesday morning shortly after he published the operational details discussed in the Signal group chat of senior Trump administration officials he was inadvertently added to earlier this month.

After the White House initially denied Goldberg’s claims that classified information and “war plans” had been discussed in the group, Goldberg reported on the operational details shared in the chat by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, this time describing them as “attack plans” in the headline.

On X, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saw an opening to criticize Goldberg’s initial report.

“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans,'” she wrote. “This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”

Here’s how Goldberg responded to Leavitt’s criticism on Morning Joe:

I don’t even know what that that means. I mean, the plain language in the text is-, what are they arguing? That an attack is different than a war? They put operational details of a forthcoming attack on a terrorist organization into Signal, into a Signal chat that included phone numbers that they didn’t recognize. I don’t even understand what that means. They’re talking about attacking and killing terrorists using various weapons systems, so she’s just playing at some sort of weird semantic game. I don´t understand.

Watch above via MSNBC.