Everyone remembers the SignalGate scandal in March 2025, when journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic was accidentally added to a Signal group chat that included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other top government officials.
Just as he would later that year with the Iranian nuclear program, President Donald Trump claimed that he had “decimated” the Houthis, the Iran-backed militia who were the targets of the attack that was being planned in that Signal chat.