You think the president of the US would first hear of a fuck up of this magnitude from the press?
I'm sure that even before the article was published they were trying to think of a way to silence it in a way that wouldn't make things even worse in the next 24 hours. That's why Trump was up there preemptively trying to discredit The Atlantic despite claiming to not know anything about his own administration's incompetent bullshit.
No worries, but I'm not the one who posted the original comment you replied to.