As the White House declares “case closed” on Signalgate, new information on Wednesday reveals Trump's national security teams have used the encrypted messaging app to set up at least 20 other chat groups, according to a damning new report by Politico.
US national security adviser Mike Waltz (pictured above) and his team are said to have set up at least 20 Signal chat groups to discuss official White House business, according to the political online media outlet.
Apparently, four unnamed sources “who've been personally added to the chats,” told Politico the chat groups were used to discuss issues such as “Ukraine, China, Gaza, Middle East policy, Africa, Europe, and more.”
Two of the unidentified individuals claimed to “have been in or had direct knowledge” of at least 20 such chats. All four of the individuals said they had personally seen instances of sensitive information being discussed, it said.
The new information shows that Trump’s security teams used the Signal encrypted messaging app more widely for sensitive communications than previously disclosed.
And the bad news keeps coming.
Earlier today, the Washington Post reported that Gmail was used regularly to conduct government work among members of Trump's National Security Council (NSC), which includes such high-ranking positions as US Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The Post further reported that one of Waltz's senior aides had used their Gmail account to share information involving "highly sensitive military positions and weapon systems in an ongoing conflict."
Dubbed Signalgate, on March 24th, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote that he was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat of top Trump officials discussing plans to carry out strikes on Yemen Houthis, kicking off the firestorm of investigations.
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