At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt attacked Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg after a group chat on Signal top Trump Administration officials planning a strike in Yemen leaked to him completely without Goldberg doing anything.
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00:00Good to see you all.
00:03Since Inauguration Day, President Trump has secured trillions of dollars in private and
00:08foreign investments.
00:10Every single day, more money is pouring into our country, which will create more jobs for
00:15hardworking Americans.
00:17Today, Schneider Electric pledged to invest more than $700 million in the United States
00:23to boost American energy infrastructure and AI.
00:27On Monday, Hyundai announced a $20 billion investment in the United States, including
00:33$5.8 billion for a new steel plant in Louisiana, which will create nearly 1,500 high-paying
00:40jobs.
00:41President Trump is truly turning America back into a manufacturing superpower.
00:46Yesterday, President Trump marked National Medal of Honor Day by meeting with 21 of our
00:51nation's bravest heroes and incredible patriots who have been awarded the highest military
00:57honor.
00:58Beautiful picture.
00:59The President also signed a historic executive order to protect the integrity of American
01:04elections by strengthening voter citizenship verification and banning foreign nationals
01:09from interfering in U.S. elections.
01:12These are the common-sense solutions that only Democrats could oppose.
01:17But voters deserve elections they can trust, and critical confidence is being restored
01:21thanks to President Trump's leadership.
01:24Later this afternoon in the East Room, President Trump will mark Women's History Month by honoring
01:28the exceptional women around our country, including the highly talented women in his
01:33administration and his Cabinet.
01:36And on an additional scheduling update, the President will hold a press conference in
01:39the Oval Office today at 4 o'clock p.m. to announce tariffs on the auto industry.
01:45And I will leave that to him to make that announcement later.
01:48Unfortunately, all of this good is happening for our country.
01:52This Administration is working hard on behalf of the American public every day, but the
01:56mainstream media continues to be focused on a sensationalized story from the failing Atlantic
02:02magazine that is falling apart by the hour.
02:06Here are the facts.
02:08The National Security Advisor has taken responsibility for this matter, and the National Security
02:13Council immediately said, alongside the White House Counsel's Office, that they are looking
02:18into how a reporter's number was inadvertently added to this messaging thread.
02:23We have said all along that no classified material was sent on this messaging thread,
02:29there were no locations, no sources, or methods revealed, and there were certainly no war
02:34plans discussed.
02:36The Atlantic has even admitted this themselves.
02:39Their release of these internal messages validates the truth, which we have been saying all along.
02:45If this story proves anything, it proves that Democrats and their propagandists in
02:50the mainstream media know how to fabricate, orchestrate, and disseminate a misinformation
02:55campaign quite well.
02:57And there's arguably no one in the media who loves manufacturing and pushing hoaxes more
03:02than Jeffrey Goldberg.
03:04Goldberg is an anti-Trump hater.
03:06He is a registered Democrat.
03:08Goldberg's wife is also a registered Democrat and a big Democrat donor who used to work
03:13under who?
03:14Hillary Clinton.
03:16This is the same Jeffrey Goldberg who infamously lied about weapons of mass destruction to
03:20get us into the Iraq War, which cost trillions of dollars and thousands of American soldiers.
03:26And how else has Goldberg discredited himself?
03:29By absurdly claiming that President Trump was Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign.
03:35By peddling the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax that tried to hijack President Trump's first
03:40term.
03:41By inventing the Suckers and Losers hoax to help Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
03:46By peddling a hoax about President Trump involving Gold Star families to help Kamala Harris in
03:51the 2024 election, which our campaign at the time vigorously denied.
03:57Jeffrey Goldberg didn't care.
03:59There's more, but we don't have all day.
04:01And we can now add this signal hoax to this very long list.
04:05The real story here is the overwhelming success of President Trump's decisive military action
04:10against Houthi terrorists.
04:13On March 15th, President Trump ordered a series of military operations against the terrorist
04:18Houthis to defend U.S. shipping assets in the Red Sea, restore freedom of navigation
04:23for international shipping, and defend the United States from enemy threats.
04:28The United States forces successfully struck dozens of targets across Houthi-controlled
04:34territory.
04:35And as a result of these actions, several Houthi leaders were killed, including the
04:39Houthi drone chief, his deputy, and several of their drone experts and other key leaders.
04:46We also destroyed command and control facilities, weapons manufacturing facilities, and advanced
04:51weapons storage locations.
04:53And it's important to remember why this powerful action took place in the first place.
04:58Because of Joe Biden's incompetence and pathetic weakness on the world stage for years, the
05:04Houthi terrorists grew emboldened.
05:06Immediately after taking office in 2021, Joe Biden removed the Iran-backed Houthis from
05:12the Foreign Terrorist Organization and specifically designated global terrorist list.
05:17Did anybody in this room ask the Biden administration at the time why they made such a stupid mistake?
05:23This reckless action undid the designation put in place by President Trump during his
05:28first term, and what followed was predictable and devastating.
05:32The Houthis targeted U.S. military ships and aircraft, hit commercial ships, including
05:37U.S.-flagged vessels, threatened our personnel overseas, and attacked our allies in the region.
05:43This resulted in more than a year of U.S.-flagged commercial ships being prevented from safely
05:48sailing through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden.
05:53This had a massive negative impact on global trade of the economic security of the United
05:58States.
05:59Joe Biden was the Commander-in-Chief, and he sat on his hands while the United States
06:04of America was bullied and embarrassed by terrorists.
06:08President Trump and his team are putting a stop to these threats in restoring American
06:12strength around the world.
06:14The Trump peace-through-strength approach means no terrorist force will stop American
06:19commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the waterways of the world.
06:24But unfortunately, this is not what the Democrats in the media want to talk about.
06:29They are focused on a coordinated campaign to try and sow chaos in this White House.
06:34And this has been the most successful first two months of any administration ever, which
06:39is exactly why they are doing this.
06:41We are not going to bend in the face of this insincere outrage.