Atlantic Editor Names The 1 Thing He Struggled To Explain In Bombshell Group Chat Report

Jeffrey Goldberg reflected on the "most improbable" part of his reporting after he was inadvertently added to a group chat where Trump officials discussed war plans.

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, shared Monday that he struggles to explain the “unreality” of Trump officials using a third-party messaging app to discuss war plans after he broke the story on the group chat he was inadvertently added to.

“The unreality of it, I think, is something that’s very hard to capture,” Goldberg told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.

In his bombshell report, Goldberg described his initial concerns that the Signal group chat ― which he said he was added to by national security adviser Michael Waltz and included the likes of Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ― was a “disinformation operation,” a “simulation” or a “hoax.”

The Signal chat, which he was added to earlier this month, saw officials discuss highly sensitive matters of national security like the then-upcoming strikes in Yemen.

Goldberg declared that the national security world is a “pretty serious” one, adding those below the principals committee of the National Security Council take their responsibilities “extremely seriously.”