Why Jeffrey Goldberg Kept Landing in Kirk's Crosshairs

Showing 3 Jeffrey Goldberg videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, became a recurring target of criticism from Charlie Kirk's circle over two separate controversies involving claims about senior political and military figures. David Sacks named Goldberg specifically as one of the main promoters of what Sacks called the Russia-gate hoax, arguing the magazine never acknowledged being wrong about the story despite years of scrutiny, a credibility gap Sacks said should make audiences skeptical of Goldberg's reporting on national security matters generally. That skepticism carried directly into a campus debate, where a student cited a widely reported claim that Trump privately called fallen soldiers "suckers and losers," prompting Kirk to respond that the claim originated specifically with Goldberg's own Atlantic reporting and had been disputed by people present at the time, including then National Security Adviser John Bolton. Goldberg's most consequential role came during what commentators called the Signal chat controversy, when he was added, reportedly by mistake, to a group chat where senior officials including Pete Hegseth discussed sensitive military planning, an episode Kirk argued the media used to attack Hegseth specifically rather than scrutinizing whoever actually invited Goldberg into the chat in the first place. Kirk framed the entire episode as revealing a deeper split inside the Republican coalition over foreign policy, arguing critics eager to blame Hegseth over the Signal chat were using Goldberg's presence there as a pretext to remove officials skeptical of continued military intervention abroad.