


Personalities on Fox News on Monday furiously attempted to spin the Trump administration’s accidental addition of The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat discussing an imminent war strike in Yemen.
Will Cain acknowledged the blunder was “incredibly concerning” but then pivoted to claim the “bigger takeaway” is that it’s “a transparent insight into the thought process and dialog of our national leaders.”
“What you will see is dialog […] in a very collaborative, open, honest, team-based attempt to come to the right decision,” said Cain. “After years of secrecy and incompetence, if you read the content of these messages, I think you will come away proud these are the leaders making these decisions in America.”
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Jesse Watters also downplayed the blunder, likening it to someone’s Aunt Mary being accidentally invited to a group chat and ending up “knowing all your raunchy plans for your bachelor party.”
Watters then tried to discredit Goldberg as “not a good reporter” and “one of the biggest hoax artists around” who’d probably “heard some things he shouldn’t have” but ultimately it was just “a wee bit of a security breach.”
Staunch Trump advocate Sean Hannity, with the caption “Media Hysteria” on screen, slammed criticism of the incident as just “phony outrage” and a “smear” against the Trump White House.
John Roberts, however, praised Goldberg’s handling of the incident.
“I would think that there are probably worse people that you could text your secret plans to,” Roberts argued. “It appears that Goldberg acted responsibly here in writing this article and while he outs a lot of the process of what happened he did not specifically publish the war plans.”