President Donald Trump said there was a lesson that his administration learned from the signalgate.
“I think we learned: Maybe not to use a signal, okay?” Trump said of the messaging application in an interview with the published Atlantic Monday.
“If you want to know the truth. I will openly tell these people not to use a signal, even if many people have used it,” he added. “But, whatever it is, whoever has it, whoever owns it, I do not want to use it.”
Last month, Atlantic editor to leader Jeffrey Goldberg, said he was accidentally added to a White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz.
Goldberg said Chat Chat was called “Houthi PC Small Group” and with other officials such as Defense Secretary Pete HegSeth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbardand Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The “PC” stood for the “Principals Committee,” Goldberg said.
Waltz and the other Trump officials are discussing the details of a planned US strike at Houti Rebels in Chat, Goldberg said. The National Security Council later confirmed to the business insider that the chat group was real.
Trump first said he didn't know about security violations. He eventually defended Waltz and Hegsetth, saying he wouldn't burn it in this incident.
“How do you bring HegSeth? She has nothing to do with it. See, it's all a witch hunting,” Trump told reporters on March 26.
“I didn't know the signal was working. I think the signal could be defective, to be honest with you,” Trump added.
First released in 2014, the signal was a nonprofit, open-sourced, end-to-end encrypted messaging platform.
Last month, Signal wrote in an X post that the misinformation was “flying around that could drive people out of signal and private communication.”
“One piece of Misisfo we need to address is claiming that there is a 'weakness' in the signal,” he wrote on March 25, citing an NPR report that quoted a pentagon email that it obtained, warned employees about a potential weakness in the messaging application.
“The memo used the word 'weakness' related to the signal – but it had nothing to do with the basic tech of the signal. It warned against phishing scams that target signal users,” Signal wrote in its post.
Representatives for Trump and Signal did not respond to requests for comment from BI.
