The latest episode in the left’s non-stop smear campaign against America First leadership played out on NBC’s Meet the Press this weekend, as Atlantic Editor-in-Chief and longtime anti-Trump operative Jeffrey Goldberg took aim at Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).
Goldberg, long regarded by conservatives as a Democratic lapdog and regime mouthpiece, found himself added to a Signal group chat containing sensitive military chatter, thanks to what Congressman Mike Waltz called an honest mistake.
Waltz took full responsibility for the digital mishap.
Recall, in an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz broke his silence on the now-infamous Signal app leak that included the infiltration of a Trump administration national security group chat by a Trump-hating Atlantic editor.
Ingraham grilled Waltz on how the editor’s number ended up in the chat. Determined to get answers, she pushed harder, questioning why Goldberg’s number was even saved on his phone.
Waltz doubled down, insisting the contact must have “sucked in somehow” – though he couldn’t explain how. He claimed the person he thought was in the group chat wasn’t there—it was Goldberg instead.
Mike Waltz:
Well, look, a staffer wasn’t responsible. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated. But how does that—I don’t mean to be pedantic here, but how did the number get into the chat? Have you ever had somebody’s contact that shows their name, and then you have somebody else’s number there?Laura Ingraham:
I never make those mistakes.Mike Waltz:
You’ve got somebody else’s number on someone else’s contact. Of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now, whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical means is something we’re trying to figure out.Laura Ingraham:
A staffer did not put his contact information?Mike Waltz:
Of course not. No.Laura Ingraham:
But how did it end up in your phone?Mike Waltz:
That’s what we’re trying to figure out.Laura Ingraham:
But that’s a pretty big problem.Mike Waltz:
That is why we’ve got the best technical minds, right? That’s disturbing. I’m sure everybody out there has had a contact where it said one person and then a different phone number.Laura Ingraham:
But you’ve never talked to him before, so how’s the number on your phone? I’m not an expert in any of this, but it’s just curious. How’s the number on your phone? Someone sent you that contact?Mike Waltz:
Well, if you have somebody else’s contact and then somehow it gets sucked in…Laura Ingraham:
Was there someone else supposed to be on the chat that wasn’t on the chat—that you thought was on the chat? That you thought was on there?Mike Waltz:
The person that I thought was on there was never on there. It was this guy.Laura Ingraham:
Who was that person?Mike Waltz:
Well, I’m not—look, Laura, I take responsibility. I built the group. But look, that’s the part we have to figure out. That’s the part that we were… Embarrassing, yes, but Pete and I are veterans. We know these operations. He has been an excellent Secretary of Defense, and this was an operation that—I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We’re fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying them with missiles. That was okay. The President takes decisive action. Now we’re seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership. We don’t want to talk about that. We don’t want to talk about this.
But that wasn’t good enough for Goldberg, who took to national television to claim Waltz was lying about never having spoken to him.
Goldberg dismissed Waltz’s explanation that the phone number could’ve been pulled in automatically via a contact.
Jeffrey Goldberg:
“Well, this isn’t The Matrix. Phone numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones. I don’t know what he’s talking about there. You know, very frequently in journalism, the most obvious explanation is the explanation. My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone. He’s telling everyone that he’s never met me or spoken to me. That’s simply not true. I understand why he’s doing it, but this has become a somewhat farcical situation. There’s no subterfuge here. My number was in his phone. He mistakenly added me to the group chat. There we go.”
WATCH:
Last week, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg gave somewhat of a cryptic response when CBS News asked him about his relationship with National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
“I’m just not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz,” Jeffrey Goldberg told CBS News in an interview Wednesday.
When asked about the photos of him standing near Mike Waltz at an event in 2021, Goldberg said, “If your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together.”
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Mike Waltz was a source for Jeffrey Goldberg while he was serving on the House Intel Committee.
Per Paul Sperry: Though Waltz insists, “I wasn’t talking to [Goldberg],” a US intel official told me Waltz was a source for Goldberg while on HPSCI. “There’s no need for an investigation to figure out how he was added to the chat. Goldberg was in his address book b/c he’s been talking to him”
For what it’s worth, Mike Waltz attended an event moderated by Jeffrey Goldberg in 2021.
Waltz was photographed standing near Goldberg.
Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg.
Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy.
The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg. pic.twitter.com/eTqOY7xnTl
— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) March 26, 2025
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