WASHINGTON, March 26. /TASS/. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung described the scandal over the leak of data on US military strikes in Yemen as a ‘tired gameplay’ by President Donald Trump’s political adversaries.
Earlier, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published an article in which he said he was mistakenly added to a chat in the Signal messenger, where senior US administration officials were discussing strikes on Yemen.
"The Atlantic story is nothing more than a section of the NatSec establishment community running the same, tired gameplay from years past," the White House communications director wrote on the X messenger.
"From the ‘Russia, Russia, Russia’ hoax of the first [presidential] term, to the fake documents case of the last four years… at every turn anti-Trump forces have tried to weaponize innocuous actions and turn them into faux outrage that Fake News outlets can use to peddle misinformation," Cheung wrote. "Don’t let enemies of America get away with these lies."
The official described the situation as a "witch hunt."
The White House earlier described the scandal as an attempt to distract attention from the US president’s successes. In turn, Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said the administration would examine how Goldberg got access to the chat.