Jeffrey Goldberg: Leavitt ‘playing at some sort of weird semantic game’

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said on Wednesday the White House is playing “some sort of weird semantic game” by focusing on his use of “attack plans” instead of “war plans” in his second bombshell report about the Signal group chat in which top Trump officials discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels — apparently without realizing Goldberg was in the chat.

The top editor on Wednesday published follow-up reporting, headlined, “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal.” The story followed an initial article, headlined, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”