Trump cries ‘witch hunt’ as White House says nothing classified shared on Signal

Donald Trump speaking to reporters in the Oval Office (Pool via AP)

US President Donald Trump has hit out at members of the media amid concerns after officials discussed a military operation in a group chat on a messaging app to which a journalist was mistakenly added.

The White House said the information shared through the publicly available Signal app with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was not classified. But Democrats have said that assertion strains credulity considering that it detailed plans for an upcoming attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels.