Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deflected when asked about the leak of a sensitive chat between Trump administration officials and attacked the character of the journalist who published the revelation.
Hegseth was on the Signal chat with national security adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was added to the chat, apparently by accident. He went on to witness the group discuss sensitive matters surrounding U.S. plans to strike the Yemen-based Houthis.
Hegseth dismissed concerns over the incident and targeted Goldberg, a vocal critic of Trump.
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“So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and
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