In light of the repercussions from the Signal messaging apps scandal, President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his national security staff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in specific.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a ’s Jeffrey Goldberg, reported on Monday that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added him to a , Signal party talk earlier this month. Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and the majority of the president’s cabinet were also participants in a group chat, where they constantly discussed and planned for Trump’s attacks against Yemen.
FIVE Conflicts SURROUNDING HEGSETH SINCE HE WAS CONFIRMED
After White House authorities insisted that the details discussed was no classified, Goldberg would go on to post pictures of the discussion on Wednesday.
In particular, Goldberg’s screenshots especially showed Waltz giving functional improvements after the attack was launched and Hegseth outlining the sequence of the strikes to the party, which led to a rise in calls for Hegseth, Waltz, or the set to resign. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports and Piers Morgan of the internet have both called for dismissals.
On Wednesday night, investigators asked Trump if Hegseth if” contemplate” leaving, but the leader responded by claiming that the Defense Secretary had not been a part of the group discussion.
” Hegseth does a fantastic job. He declared,” He had nothing to do with this. How do you insert Hegseth into it? He was not involved in it at all. Appear, everything is a witch hunt.
Trump defended Waltz similarly the day before, telling reporters there was no justification for the national security adviser to “apologize” for using a technology that was permitted for some types of government connection, but not all of it.
Republican REPRESENTS WALTZDOESN’T NEED TO” Regret” FOR SIGNAL SCANDAL
Trump’s opinions are available online below.
