Sky News correspondent: Trump deflected Signal chat

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Trump’s team hoped to sit out the Signal chat incident, shifting focus by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg, Sky News’ US Correspondent Martha Kelner says.  #SignalGate #Trump

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00:00But it seems like Trump's top team has really, you know, grounded rags. They're

00:06not saying anything, it doesn't seem like heads are going to roll. Do you think

00:10this is going to carry on until there are repercussions for those in the group?

00:15Yeah, I think Donald Trump and his, you know, inner circle thought that they may

00:21be able to tough this out, that they'd be able to navigate their way through this

00:26scandal by using this crisis management strategy of deny, deflect and attack. You

00:33know, we've seen the journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic

00:37magazine, who was invited into that group chat. We've seen him coming under

00:40fire from the Trump administration. He's been called a sleazebag by the president.

00:45Suggestions from the cabinet that Jeffrey Goldberg was just trying to make

00:50a name for himself that his reporting is informed by left-wing bias. So I think

00:56the Trump team were hoping that they could try and deflect from the issue at

01:02hand here.

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