The Trump administration faced a brutal 48 hours of trying to fight back against The Atlantic and its editor Jeffrey Goldberg ever since he published a story revealing that the president’s national security team texted its plans to attack Houthis in Yemen. Then Goldberg and the magazine pulled the trigger and published the entire chat that took place over Signal.
The administration reverted to its defensive crouch, seeking to pick a fight with the press, the playing field where it feels most comfortable — rather than addressing the fact that officials held a highly sensitive security discussion in a Signal chat.
