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WASHINGTON (TNND) — Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responded Monday to the report that an editor with The Atlantic was included in a text message chain with top Trump administration officials about plans to attack the Houthi terrorist group.
"You've got to be kidding me," Clinton wrote on X, sharing the eyes emoji along with a screenshot of The Atlantic article headlined "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans."
Her response comes after she was heavily criticized by Republicans during her 2016 campaign for using a private server for classified emails when she was President Obama's secretary of State.
Clinton said she relied on a private email system "for convenience," but intelligence agencies’ internal watchdog found more than a hundred emails on that server included classified information.
Trump seized on the deleted emails when he was campaigning for president, saying, “Russia: if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”
After a yearlong inquiry into Clinton’s emails, prosecutors and the inspector general concluded, “There was no evidence that the senders or former Secretary Clinton believed or were aware at the time that the emails contained classified information."
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, explained in the article that he was added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal that included members named “JD Vance,” “Pete Hegseth” and “Michael Waltz.”
President Donald Trump told reporters he "didn't know anything about it."
"I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business," he said. "I think it's not much of a magazine. But I know nothing about it."
When asked by reporters in Hawaii about the article, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized Goldberg by calling him "a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt denied any wrongdoing in a post on X and stated, "the White House is looking into how Goldberg’s number was inadvertently added to the thread."
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