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Annotated Text From Leaked Signal Group Chat With Top Trump Officials

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Thursday, March 13

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Michael Waltz

4:28 p.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

MAR

4:29 p.m.

—Michael Crowley

JD Vance

4:29 p.m.

TG

4:30 p.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

Scott B

4:39 p.m.

Pete Hegseth

4:53 p.m.

John Ratcliffe

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5:24 p.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

Brian

6:34 p.m.

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Friday, March 14

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Michael Waltz

8:05 a.m.

—Devlin Barrett

2 annotations JD Vance

8:16 a.m.

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—Maggie Haberman

2

—Erica L. Green

Joe Kent

8:22 a.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

John Ratcliffe

<!–>[Content of this message was not published by The Atlantic.]–>

8:26 a.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

5 annotations Pete Hegseth

8:27 a.m.

1

—Helene Cooper

2

—Erica L. Green

3

—Erica L. Green

4

—Maggie Haberman

5

—Julian E. Barnes

Michael Waltz

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2 annotations JD Vance

8:45 a.m.

1

—Shawn McCreesh

2

—Julian E. Barnes

JD Vance

8:46 a.m.

—Julian E. Barnes

3 annotations Pete Hegseth

8:49 a.m.

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—Helene Cooper

2

—Devlin Barrett

3

—Shawn McCreesh

S M

9:35 a.m.

—Maggie Haberman

Pete Hegseth 9:46 p.m.

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Saturday, March 15

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2 annotations Pete Hegseth

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11:44 a.m.

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—Helene Cooper

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—Devlin Barrett

JD Vance

Michael Waltz

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1:48 p.m.

JD Vance 2:01 p.m.
John Ratcliffe

2:36 p.m.

Michael Waltz

4:58 p.m.

MAR

5:14 p.m.

Michael Waltz

5:15 p.m.

—Erica L. Green

S M

5:18 p.m.

—Helene Cooper

Susie Wiles

Steve Witkoff

—Maggie Haberman

TG

—Julian E. Barnes

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[–><!–>The messages shown here are a direct transcription of what is described in The Atlantic’s article about the text chain. In some cases, exact punctuation or paragraph breaks in the message exchange could not be determined from the article. Timestamps are displayed as described by The Atlantic; where no timestamp was described, none is shown. The final three messages shown without timestamps from Saturday, March 15 are displayed in the order that The Atlantic listed them. If The Atlantic mentioned omitting content from a message, that is noted in bracketed italics. Any other omissions The Atlantic may have made are not represented here.–><!–>

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