President Donald Trump defended his national security team and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in particular, on Wednesday amid the fallout from the Signal messaging app scandal.
On Monday, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat by national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month. Vice President JD Vance, Hegseth, and the bulk of the president’s Cabinet were also group chat participants, where they actively discussed and planned for Trump’s airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Goldberg would go on to publish screenshots of the conversation on Wednesday after White House officials insisted that the information discussed was not classified.
Goldberg’s screenshots specifically showed Hegseth outlining the sequencing of the strikes to the group…
