Signalgate journalist Jeff Goldberg said he’s frightened of legal retribution from the Trump administration, saying,” I don’t find bullied” in a Sunday morning discussion.
” No, I don’t get bullied”, the Atlantic director told NBC News number Kristen Welker when asked if he’s worried the presidency do” come after you”. ” I’m not worried about that. They’re clearly being really, really silly it”.
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Goldberg has been the talk of Washington, D. C., since breaking reports last week that he was added to a Signal talk in which top Trump White House officials discussed plans to attack the Houthi terrorist organization.
In an appearance on Meet the Press, he said he’s confident it won’t get any legal action taken against him and furthered his claims that he had spoken with regional security director Mike Waltz due to him mistakenly being added to the knowledge group chat.
Waltz has claimed that Goldberg’s range got” sucked into” his cellphone, which Goldberg firmly denies.
” This isn’t The Matrix“, Goldberg said, referencing the 1999 movie. ” Phone statistics don’t just get sucked into various devices. I don’t know what he’s talking about it”.
” The most obvious explanation is the explanation”, Goldberg added, saying his number was already in Waltz’s phone and that any claims to the contrary are” simply not true”.
President Donald Trump and his team spent most of last week pushing up strongly against the tale, attacking Goldberg’s legitimacy, saying the objective in question was a success, that Signal is an accepted communication device on government phones, that information shared was no classified, and suggesting the media is making too much of the incident.
Goldberg defended himself in the interview, saying that if the information wasn’t classified,” I simply don’t know what the meaning of classified or secret or top secret is”.
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Asked if he has any regrets about how the story played out, Goldberg said he wished the Trump administration hadn’t challenged his first story forcing him to write a second one with more compromising details.
” I wish that I had not been put in the position to have to release the more sensitive texts”, Goldberg said. ” But the only reason I did that was because they said we were lying about what we had, and they were trying to cover up what was obviously a massive national security breach”.
