Hillary Clinton Reacts To Report That ‘Atlantic’ Editor Was Sent War Plans By Trump Administration: ‘You Have Got To Be Kidding Me!’

Alessio AtriaMarch 26, 2025, 11:23 pmNews >

Hillary Clinton shared how surprised she was after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, reported that the Trump Administration accidentally sent him plans to attack Houthi militants in Yemen. “You have got to be kidding me,” Clinton wrote in an X post, including Goldberg’s report.

On Sunday, Goldberg published an article in which he reported he was added to a group chat called “Houthi PC small group” on March 13 via Signal, an encrypted messaging service widely thought to be more secure than other commercial texting applications.

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In the article, the editor-in-chief discussed his initial skepticism, remembering that he discussed with colleagues whether the texts were “part of a disinformation campaign, initiated by either a foreign intelligence service or, more likely, a media-gadfly organization,” hoping to humiliate journalists.

Goldberg also said that he went on to receive a series of messages on Signal that seemed to come from Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and other well-known officials in President Donald Trump‘s administration.

In his article, Goldberg quoted from the text chain discussion, and The Atlantic also published screenshots of the Signal thread. He noted that the military plan discussed in the group chat “included precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing,” saying that he refrained from reporting specific information that could damage national security.

Goldberg said that the user labeled “Michael Waltz” celebrated the launch of a series of airstrikes against the Houthis on March 15 at 1:48 p.m. ET, seven minutes before the editor-in-chief checked X and saw that explosions had been heard across Sanaa, Yemen’s capital.

He reported that he left the Signal group after he determined it was “almost certainly real.”

“No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there,” Goldberg stated. “And I received no subsequent questions about why I left – or, more to the point, who I was.”

In the article, Goldberg reported that a Signal account known as “JD Vance” seemed to oppose the airstrike plans.

“I think we are making a mistake,” they mentioned.

The user raised concerns about oil prices spiking, European nations benefiting from the U.S. protection of global shipping lanes and a lack of public knowledge about the Houthis.

The same account replied to a user identified as “Pete Hegseth” and wrote, “If you think we should do it, let’s go.”

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly attacked Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was Secretary of State.