> White House publicly supports Hegseth as new Signal chat controversy rises
White House publicly supports Hegseth as new Signal chat controversy rises
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The White House expressed support Monday for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following media reports that he shared sensitive military details in another Signal messaging chat, this time with his wife and brother.
Neither the White House nor Hegseth denied that he had shared such information in a second chat, instead focusing their responses on what they called the disgruntled workers whom they blamed for leaking to the media and insisting that no classified information had been disclosed.
“It’s just fake news. They just bring up stories,” President Donald Trump told reporters. "I guess it sounds like disgruntled employees. You know, he was put there to get rid of a lot of bad people, and that’s what he’s doing. So you don’t always have friends when you do that,” Trump said.
MORE: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/nation-world/white-house-supports-hegseth/507-2f0a57ac-4de0-4ef3-8e7b-8a90a570a3f8