Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth strongly pushed back on a report from a left-wing journalist on Monday who alleged that he was included in a Signal chat group where he claims that sensitive military attack plans were shared.
Hegseth made the remarks after landing in Hawaii for meetings about the United States military’s preparedness to confront threats in the Indo-Pacific region after The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published a report suggesting that Trump administration officials shared classified materials on the encrypted messaging app about the United States’ attack plans on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called ‘journalist’ who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ or the ‘Fine People On Both…
