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Trump UN Envoy Pick Chastised For Discussing Bombing On Signal

Former US national security advisor Mike Waltz testifies during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination to be US ambassador to the United Nations (Credit: AFP)

President Donald Trump's former national security advisor Mike Waltz on Tuesday defiantly defended his use of a group chat to discuss military plans as he faced accusations of lying during a hearing to be US ambassador to the United Nations.

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine said in March that Waltz had mistakenly added him to a chat among top US officials on commercial messaging app Signal about the imminent US bombing of Yemen.

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