This fucking idiot can’t be trusted.
I don’t think. It’s booze necessarily. I think it’s the cut of his jib. He’s a faulty human being who has no business ever seeing war plans let alone lone managing them.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/def...ts-2025-04-20/
Pentagon chief Hegseth shared sensitive Yemen war plans in second Signal chat, source says
Idrees AliApril 21, 20253:15 AM CDTUpdated 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday.
The revelations of a second Signal chat raise more questions about Hegseth's use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details and come at a particularly delicate moment for him, with senior officials ousted from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak investigation.
In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack similar to those revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake, in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.
The person familiar with the matter, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said the second chat included about a dozen people and was created during his confirmation process to discuss administrative issues rather than detailed military planning.
The chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes, the person said.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, according to images the Pentagon has publicly posted.
During a meeting Hegseth had with his British counterpart at the Pentagon in March, his wife could be seen sitting behind him.
Hegseth's brother is a Department of Homeland Security liaison to the Pentagon.
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The Trump administration has aggressively pursued leaks, an effort that has been enthusiastically embraced by Hegseth at the Pentagon.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell, without evidence, said that the media was "enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article."
"The Trump-hating media continues to be obsessed with destroying anyone committed to President Trump's agenda. ... We've already achieved so much for the American warfighter, and will never back down," Parnell said in a statement on X.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said that "recently fired ‘leakers’ are continuing to misrepresent the truth to soothe their shattered egos and undermine the President’s agenda.
TUMULTUOUS MOMENT FOR HEGSETH
Democratic lawmakers said Hegseth could no longer stay in his job.
"We keep learning how Pete Hegseth put lives at risk," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a post to X. "But Trump is still too weak to fire him. Pete Hegseth must be fired."
Senator Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran who suffered grave injuries in combat in 2004, said that Hegseth "must resign in disgrace."
A U.S. official at the Pentagon questioned how Hegseth could keep his job after the latest news.
The latest revelation comes days after Dan Caldwell, one of Hegseth's leading advisers, was escorted from the Pentagon after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.
Although Caldwell is not as well known as other senior Pentagon officials, he has played a critical role for Hegseth and was named as the Pentagon's point person by the Secretary in the first Signal chat.
"We are incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended," Caldwell posted on X on Saturday. "Unnamed Pentagon officials have slandered our character with baseless attacks on our way out the door."
Following Caldwell's departure, less-senior officials Darin Selnick, who recently became Hegseth's deputy chief of staff, and Colin Carroll, who was chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, were put on administrative leave and fired on Friday.
- Yssup Rider
- Today, 08:56 AM
- Lucas McCain
- Today, 09:21 AM
As much as Trump will hate to have to do it, that drunk inept motherfucker is gone. It was obvious that dipshit had no business being chosen for that position and he has only proven the naysayers to be right... but we are dealing with Trump though and his stupid ass may keep him regardless of what that Fox clown does just to show his level of authority.
- pxmcc
- Today, 09:39 AM
+1 sir. this is totally beyond the pale. and i have zero confidence that the fall guys did anything wrong other than not checking their boss in real time, which is easier said than done.
- Yssup Rider
- Today, 02:21 PM
Crickets from the MAGAs.
Unsurprised
Unsurprised
- winn dixie
- Today, 02:28 PM
- Why_Yes_I_Do
- Today, 05:06 PM
Crickets from the MAGAs... Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
...Surprised? Not I.
Reporter: Is there anything you want to say, sir, about the Signal chat controversy?
Hegseth: You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of— a few leakers get fired, then suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out about me from the same media that peddled the Russia Hoax, won’t give back their Pulitzers?
They got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies, Pulitzers for a bunch of lies! And on hoaxes time, and time, and time again. And as they peddle those lies, no one ever calls them on it. See, this is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations.
It’s not going to work with me because we’re changing the defense department, putting the pentagon back in the hands of war fighters, and anonymous smears from disgruntled former employees on old news doesn’t matter. So, I’m happy to be here at the Easter Egg Roll with my dad and my **** because you know, this is what we’re doing it for, these ****.
This is why we’re fighting the fake news media. This is why we’re fighting slash and burn democrats. This is why we’re fighting hoaxters. Hoaxters, this group right here, full of hoaxters that peddle anonymous sources from leakers with access to grime, and then you put it all together as if it’s some news story. You know exactly what it is. So, I’m really proud of what we’re doing for the President, fighting hard across the board. And I’m going to go roll some Easter eggs...
Maybe losing is just what the Dims are best at.