{"id":2417568,"date":"2025-03-29T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-atlantic-story-fake-news-wont-fire-anyone-over-signal-group-chat-leak-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T03:17:38","slug":"trump-calls-atlantic-story-fake-news-wont-fire-anyone-over-signal-group-chat-leak-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-atlantic-story-fake-news-wont-fire-anyone-over-signal-group-chat-leak-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Atlantic story \u2018fake news,\u2019 won\u2019t fire anyone over Signal group chat leak &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-calls-atlantic-story-fake-news-wont-fire-anyone-over-signal-group-chat-leak-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2417568&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump addressed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-slammed-for-article-comparing-joe-rogan-controversy-to-january-6-riot-rwandan-genocide\/\" title=\"CNN Slammed For Article Comparing Joe Rogan Controversy To January 6 Riot, Rwandan genocide\">recent controversy involving<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">signal messaging app leak<\/a>, labeling the reporting by *The Atlantic* as &#8220;fake news.&#8221; he made it clear that he does not plan to dismiss any Cabinet members involved in the incident, which included discussions about military actions against Yemeni Houthis. Despite calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz due to this security lapse, Trump defended them in an NBC News interview, denouncing the outcry as part of a &#8220;witch hunt.&#8221; He dismissed concerns about the Signal app, stating, &#8220;I don\u2019t care what Signal is,&#8221; and insisted that the media&#8217;s focus on the leak detracted from the success of U.S. operations against the Houthis. Additionally, legal actions have emerged regarding the preservation of messages exchanged on Signal, with a judge ordering certain Cabinet members to retain records.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump calls Atlantic story &lsquo;fake news,&rsquo; won&rsquo;t fire anyone over Signal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/orthodox-jews-slam-new-amazon-prime-regulations\/\" title=\"Orthodox Jews Slam New Amazon Prime Regulations\">group chat<\/a> leak<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2077454\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> again addressed the stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/signal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Signal<\/a> messaging app scandal from earlier this week, calling the <em>Atlantic&rsquo;s<\/em> reporting on it &ldquo;fake news&rdquo; and suggesting he won&rsquo;t be firing any of his <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cabinet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Cabinet<\/a> members who were part of the group chat.<\/p>\n<p>The<em>&nbsp;Atlantic&rsquo;s<\/em>&nbsp;Jeffrey Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3357053\/journalist-jeffrey-goldberg-signal-group-chat-national-security-bomb-houthis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reported\">reported<\/a> earlier this week that he was inadvertently added to a&nbsp;Signal group chat discussing imminent strikes on the Yemeni Houthis. In the encrypted chat were many of Trump&rsquo;s top Cabinet members, including Defense Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pete-hegseth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pete Hegseth<\/a>, national security adviser <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-waltz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Waltz<\/a>, and Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">JD Vance<\/a>. Since the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/journalist-added-to-trump-admins-group-chat-discussing-houthi-strikes\/\" title=\"Journalist added to ... admin&#039;s ... discussing Houthi strikes\">national security lapse<\/a>, calls have come from many figures on the Left for Hegseth, Waltz, or the pair, to resign.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3363453\/trump-auto-tariffs-absolutely-permanent\/\">Trump says 25% auto tariffs will &#8216;absolutely&#8217; be permanent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3363379\/white-house-correspondents-association-cancels-comedian\/\">White House Correspondents&#8217; Association cancels comedian&#8217;s performance after White House criticism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3363277\/duffy-no-beef-with-musk-doge-despite-bumpy-start\/\">Duffy says no &#8216;beef&#8217; with Musk and DOGE despite &#8216;bumpy&#8217; start<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>But Trump shot back at any supposed wavering of his confidence in Hegseth or Waltz in an NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"interview\">interview<\/a> on Saturday, saying he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s just a witch hunt and the fake news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it&rsquo;s just a witch hunt, and it shouldn&rsquo;t be talked [about],&rdquo; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>He further called the story &ldquo;nonsense&rdquo; that has detracted from the U.S.&rsquo;s successful strikes against the Houthis, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3349127\/trump-strikes-houthis-yemen-iran-fund-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"began\">began<\/a> in mid-March and Trump characterized as &ldquo;tremendously successful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All I can tell you is it&rsquo;s just a witch hunt, and it&rsquo;s the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to talk about. Because it&rsquo;s been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump also dismissed any talk about the app the encrypted chat took place on, Signal, which is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3361780\/james-boasberg-trump-defendants-signal-chat-messages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"at the center of a lawsuit\">at the center of a lawsuit<\/a> filed by the left-leaning nonprofit group American Oversight. That complaint alleges the U.S. officials were not properly preserving Signal messages and that some were being erased entirely through the app&rsquo;s auto-delete function, in violation of the Federal Records Act. Judge James Boasberg, now a frequent target of Trump, has since ordered five of Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet members to preserve all Signal messages sent from March 11 to March 15.<\/p>\n<p>The president said on Saturday that he has &ldquo;no idea what Signal is. I don&rsquo;t care what Signal is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2077454\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2077454\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump labels Atlantic&#8217;s report as &#8216;fake news,&#8217; won&#8217;t dismiss Cabinet members over Signal leak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2417569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trump-new-comments-signal-group-chat-leak.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4192,34247,3634],"class_list":["post-2417568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-atlantic","tag-fake-news","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/trump-new-comments-signal-group-chat-leak.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417572,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417568\/revisions\/2417572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}