On Monday (March 24), the White House confirmed the legitimacy of The Atlantic’s report about the Signal group chat and later Trump also told reporters that his administration would investigate the incident. A day later, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung rejected the legitimacy of the story, accused “Fake News outlets” of peddling “misinformation,” and accused critics of being “enemies of America,” and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who wrote on social media that the “entire story” is “another hoax.”