The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials on Wednesday, showing that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timing of warplane launches and when bombs would drop “before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the US were airborne”.

The disclosure follows two intense days during which Trump’s senior most Cabinet members of his intelligence and defence agencies have struggled to explain how details that current and former US officials have said would have been classified wound up on an unclassified Signal chat that included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.