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In the last couple of days, he's been called a "loser" and a "sleazebag" by President Trump, as well as a liar and "scum" by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, who appeared to have mistakenly added Goldberg to a group chat earlier this month.

President Trump expressed his support for Hegseth on Wednesday, saying he was "doing a great job" and describing Goldberg as a "sleazebag".

He also referred to Mr Goldberg as a "total sleazebag".

Rather than admit responsibility, agents of the Trump administration have attacked Goldberg as “a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again” and a “horrible, radical-Left lunatic” and “total sleazebag” working for a “magazine that is going out of business” whose reporting is “bad for the country.”

Trump responded by calling Jim “a major loser” and “one of the worst and most dishonest reporters in journalistic history; a major sleazebag.”