In March 2025, the Trump administration accidentally sent their war plans to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. Yep, U.S. national security bigwigs added him to a group chat meant to hash out an impending military strike on Yemen. Pete Hegseth dropped a full playbook in the chat—strike targets, weapon systems, attack sequences, and a tidy little timeline. All of it tied to that afternoon’s airstrike on Houthi targets.

Goldberg didn’t buy it at first. “This can’t be real,” he thought. Then the bombs started falling.

This mess didn’t just spark national security panic—it dumped legal and political heat on the administration. The White House tried to shrug it off, but bipartisan backlash and looming legal fallout suggest this could be the first big scandal of Trump’s second term.