Donald Trump has defended members of his national security team following the embarrassing leak of messages from a Signal group chat by the Atlantic editor, Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg said he was mistakenly added to the Signal group, which included the national security director, defence secretary and vice-president, as they deliberated a plan to strike Yemen’s Houthi group

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