US judge orders Trump admin to save ‘Signalgate’ chat

A US judge ordered Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday to preserve messages from a chat group used by top national security officials to discuss plans for an attack on Yemen’s Huthi rebels.

The ruling adds to the pressure on the White House after the Atlantic magazine revealed that its editor had been accidentally added to the group on the commercially-available Signal app.

Republican Trump has dismissed the scandal as a “witch-hunt” while attacking the Atlantic and its editor-in-chief…