Trump plays down Yemen war plans blunder: 'There was no classified information'

Donald Trump has defended members of his national security team following the embarrassing leak of messages from a Signal group chat by the Atlantic editor, Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg said he was mistakenly added to the Signal group, which included the national security director, defence secretary and vice-president, as they deliberated a plan to strike Yemen’s Houthi group White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist US Yemen blunder ‘could put British lives at risk’, say Lib Dems White House security leak: who’s who in the Signal group chat