The White House reportedly blames the auto-connected iPhone contact signal scandal

How has Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg added to the signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing plans for airstrikes in Yemen?

The simplest explanation: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz saved Goldberg as a mobile contact and accidentally added him. In fact, when Waltz first claimed that Goldberg’s phone number was “sucked” from another contact, Goldberg said, “This is not a “matrix.””

However, according to the Guardian: Internal investigation What the White House Information Technology Office has done is more complicated and concluded that automatic iPhone proposals play a key role. After Goldberg emailed the White House comments about the story, Trump spokesman Brian Hughes texted the contents of his email to Goldberg’s Waltz.

As a result, Waltz’s iPhone provided a “Contact Suggestion Update” which ultimately saved Goldberg’s phone number under the name of Hughes. Later, when Waltz tried to add Hughes (now a national security council spokesman) to the chat, he appears to have added Goldberg instead.

Goldberg said, “I know him and I’ve spoken to him, but I’m not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Waltz.”