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Trump’s team quickly fired back, calling out Goldberg’s dishonesty. According to them, no such “war plans” were discussed, and the whole situation was twisted for political sabotage.
Goldberg and his Atlantic colleague Shane Harris then published a story trying to shame Trump’s people by spilling details from the Signal chat. But here’s the kicker—Goldberg ended up admitting the chat involved “attack plans,” inadvertently confirming the Trump camp’s original claim that no “war plans” were involved.
Fast forward to Wednesday, and Kaitlan Collins opened her interview by poking and prodding VA Secretary Collins for answers on the issue—despite his clear statement that he had no involvement in the matter.
“Do you believe a mistake was made to have this conversation and to add a reporter…to have it on an unsupported group setting?” she pressed.
Collins had already said he wasn’t involved. He tried to shift the conversation to veterans’ issues, the department he actually oversees. But Collins wasn’t having it. She kept pressing about Signal, ignoring his repeated clarifications.
That’s when the VA Secretary had enough.
“Well, Kaitlan, since you do not want to talk about the VA, I have a question as VA secretary I want to ask you,” he fired back. “I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans, especially one in Florida where you just had a $5 million defamation suit who was just trying to help people.”
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And it didn’t stop there.
“In fact, one of your employees said, ‘We are going to nail him.’ I have a question for you, Kaitlan: Is that employee still employed? Are you really concerned about veterans?”
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He was referring to the jaw-dropping CNN defamation case involving Navy veteran Zachary Young. Earlier this year, CNN settled with Young after a jury awarded him $5 million in damages for a defamatory 2021 segment that misrepresented his efforts to save lives during the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Instead of portraying him as the hero he was, CNN labeled him a shady black-market operator. “We are going to nail him,” one CNN reporter allegedly said, with another reportedly calling the story Young’s “funeral.”
Kaitlan Collins tried to claw her way out of the mess, mumbling something about eventually covering veterans’ issues. But Doug Collins wasn’t letting her off the hook.
“No, Kaitlan. What you want to do is talk about a subject which I have already given you the answer to,” he snapped. “There are veterans employees who are working very hard, veterans who get their care from the VA, and get their benefits from the VA.
“And it does me no good to speculate on something that I’ve already asked and answered,” he added. “Now that I’ve answered your question, why don’t you answer mine? Is that person still employed who said they were going to nail one of my veterans?”
Collins had no answer. No spin. Just silence.
In a moment meant to embarrass the Trump administration, it was CNN that walked away humiliated—again.
