Trump dismisses Signal security failure as ‘the only glitch in two months’


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Donald Trump defended his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday and said the leak of highly classified military plans was “the only glitch in two months”, as scrutiny intensified into how top US officials shared operational details for bombing Yemen in a group chat. In an interview with NBC, Trump said, “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” as Democrats called for an investigation into the sharing of the plans for this month’s major airstrikes in Yemen on the Signal app. The Atlantic reported that Waltz, who was a congressman representing Florida before being appointed national...