No one will be fired over Signal chat group blunder, says President Trump

No one will be fired over a national security blunder which saw a journalist mistakenly added to a Signal chat group discussing planned strikes on Yemen, US President Donald Trump has said. This week it was revealed national security adviser Michael Waltz accidentally added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat with senior members of the Trump administration who were discussing plans to strike Houthi militants earlier this month. The White House sought to downplay the incident, with Mr Trump repeatedly branding it “fake news” throughout an interview with Sky’s network partner NBC News. The president said on…