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The White House’s group chat screwup is even more ridiculous than we thought

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Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal group chat about a military strike in Yemen planned for later that day .

Now, sources inside the White House have apparently told The Guardian that an internal investigation revealed the roundabout way that happened.

When national security adviser Mike Waltz invited Goldberg to the chat, he was actually trying to add a Trump spokesperson whose contact information contained Goldberg ’s number.

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