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The White House has reportedly settled on an explanation for how 'Signalgate' happened


The Guardian reports that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz might have accidentally added a reporter's contact details to the contact card of an official Trump spokesperson.

After an internal investigation, The White House has come up with a likely explanation for how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was included in a Signal chat filled with Trump officials planning to bomb the Houthis. The Guardian reports that the issue came down to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz not understanding how his iPhone works. So Waltz didn't realize his iPhone was updating a contact rather than creating a new one, and meant to add Hughes to the group chat rather than Goldberg.

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