Karoline Leavitt reveals Elon Musk will help lead investigation into Signal chat fiasco

WASHINGTON, DC: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is helping lead the probe into the Signal chat leak involving top national security leaders, including national security advisor Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Wednesday, March 26.

Goldberg claimed he was inadvertently added to a secret Signal group chat where President Donald Trump's Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, allegedly discussed a bombing plan in Yemen.

Elon Musk will help lead investigation into Signal chat leak

Karoline Leavitt said during Wednesday's White House press conference, "The National Security Council, the White House Counsel's Office, and also, yes, Elon Musk's team" will be leading the investigation into the Signal leak.

She added, "Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this, to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat — again, to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again."

The Atlantic’s initial report described the Trump administration as exchanging texts about "war plans", according to Fox News. However, the Trump administration stated that no classified material was shared in the chat, and Trump also defended Mike Waltz amid the fallout.

Moreover, Trump revealed on Tuesday, March 25, that a member of Waltz's office invited Goldberg to the chat but did not give additional information.

Leavitt continued, "If this story proves anything, it proves that Democrats and their propagandists in the mainstream media know how to fabricate, orchestrate, and disseminate a misinformation campaign quite well."

She added, "And there's arguably no one in the media who loves manufacturing and pushing hoaxes more than Jeffrey Goldberg."

Leavitt stated that Signal is an "approved app" for government employees. She added that the "CIA has it loaded onto government phones because it is the most secure and efficient way to communicate."

Mike Waltz admits he added Jeffrey Goldberg to group chat 

Mike Waltz joined Fox News' 'The Ingraham Angle' on Tuesday and took responsibility for adding Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal group chat. He claimed he believed the account belonged to someone else.

Waltz said, "I built the group. My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated."

He added, "Of course, I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. The person I thought was on there was never on there."

He further said during the interview that he had just spoken to Musk about the matter and that the "best technical minds" would look into it.

The Tesla CEO is helping lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been going through federal agencies to look for government overspending, fraud, and mismanagement.

Waltz wrote on X on Wednesday, "No locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS. Foreign partners had already been notified that strikes were imminent. BOTTOM LINE: President Trump is protecting America and our interests."