iPhone Glitch behind the White House Seinkletsdebacle? How Mike Waltz finally added journalist to 'Houthi PC Group' | Today news

A seemingly harmless error by Donald Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz and his iPhone could have been the real reason why a journalist was added to a signal that announced the US plans to stop Yemen. According to a report by The Guardian quoting three sources, Waltz mistakenly saved the number of Atlantic Magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg under someone else’s name. The official was originally intended to add this person to the group chat named ‘Houthi PC Small Group’, the report states. An internal investigation by the White House emphasized it as one of the different errors that ran unnoticed until Waltz made the group in March. Donald Trump initially intended to fire Waltz, more because of the fact that he spared Goldberg’s number on his phone. Later he decided against the move. “I don’t finish people because of false news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said in an interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News. He also said he has confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his head of the Pentagon. iPhone real culprit? According to the sources quoted by The Guardian, the story unfolded when Goldberg decided in October last year to do an article about Donald Trump, who was on his election campaign at the time. He sent an email, then Trump spokesman Brian Hughes, who posted the copy as an SMS to Waltz’s phone. The message contains all content of the email, including Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number. That’s when the iPhone drama may come in. In an extraordinary turn, Waltz may have accidentally stored Goldberg’s number under Hughes name that day, thanks to a “contact proposal”, Guardian reports. According to one of the sources quoted by the Media Outlet, this update is a feature where an iPhone algorithm adds an unknown number under the name of an existing contact if it finds that both are related. Signal chat leaks: Last month, the latest America’s top national security officials discussed sensitive attack plans on the public available messages and mistakenly adding a journalist to the chain. The White House said the information shared by publicly available signal app with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Magazine, was not classified. The Trump administration has since been embraced in a controversy to add the editor of the Atlantic Magazine to a private thread describing an imminent bombardment in Yemen. Thereafter, the Atlantic published an article on the internal exchange, shocked the national security institution and widespread criticism. Persecretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the administration retained the confidence in national security advisor Mike Waltz, who was critical because he apparently added the journalist. Leavitt said steps were taken to repeat the incident and said the case was closed. “Since the president made it very clear, Mike Waltz is still an important part of his national security team and this case is closed here in the White House,” she said at the end of March.