While The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg had no control over being added to the Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, Fox News host Will Cain said he had the ability and “obligation” to exit.

The host of “The Will Cain Show” argued on Thursday’s broadcast that the outlet’s editor-in-chief should have left the sensitive chat when he realized he was included. Instead, he remained part of the group texts that included Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, among others, as they discussed impending airstrikes in Yemen on Houthi targets.

Cain questioned Goldberg’s role in “one of the most overhyped and oversold stories of the last several years.”

Cain: Is there not some ethical obligation on Jeffrey Goldberg to announce himself and to leave? He literally is the story. But for his presence it is not a story. What obligation did Jeffrey Goldberg have to make himself not the story? And to leave what he knows is a private and… pic.twitter.com/2z8EBeIAYd

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 27, 2025

“He got invited, apparently, perhaps, maybe, he got included in a private group deliberation. Now, if you or I get invited to a party that we really weren’t supposed to be at, we didn’t get an invitation we’d politely excuse ourselves. Maybe that makes light of the situation,” Cain said.

“Improper disclosures are always made in the legal world, private filings, information you shouldn’t receive, sometimes sent over email to the wrong person. Lawyers bow out, announce their presence, and say it’s time to move on,” he explained.

No locations. No targets. No who. No where. Not “war plans”.

Still a mistake. A mistake that has to be corrected.

But oversold by Goldberg. This is why credibility matters and Goldberg has none. He framed the hype.

— Will Cain (@willcain) March 26, 2025

“We saw none of that here with Jeffrey Goldberg. Instead, he sat around under the implausible rationale that he wanted to find out if it was real. He never bowed out. He never announced himself. Instead, the first the world heard of it is when he published what he claimed to be classified documents and overhyped and oversold as war plans,” Cain continued.

As Trump officials subsequently noted, there were no “war plans” discussed on the chat and no classified information was shared.

Trump reacts to botched group chat, Hegseth says ‘nobody’ sent ‘war plans,’ but here’s the fallout https://t.co/Yzu4GL7ebZ via @BIZPACReview

— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) March 25, 2025

“Is there not some ethical obligation on Jeffrey Goldberg to announce himself and to leave? He literally is the story. But for his presence, it’s not a story,” Cain observed.

“It’s not as though he uncovered Watergate. He overheard through a wall that happened to matter to national security. His presence is the story. What obligation does Jeffrey Goldberg have to make himself, not the story and to leave what he knows is a private and important deliberation among President Trump’s top cabinet?” Cain asked.

A mistake occurred with Goldberg/Signal. An embarrassing mistake. But how big?

It’s not whataboutism to provide context.
– 13 Marines were not killed.
– SOD didn’t disappear without notice like Austin.
– No one slept with a Chinese spy like Swalwell.
– SOS didn’t purposefully…

— Will Cain (@willcain) March 25, 2025

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