Trump Says He Won’t Fire Anyone Over Signal Chat Group Leak

President Donald Trump said on March 29 that he had no intention to fire anyone in his Cabinet after a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal group chat discussing his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump told NBC News in a Saturday phone interview. On March 13, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz inadvertently added The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group text, called “Houthi PC small group,” of administration officials discussing the airstrike. Signal is an encrypted messaging service....