White Home defends Pete Hegseth after new reporting on his Sign group chat use

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Hegseth steered that disgruntled former workers who had been not too long ago fired leaked the details about his use of Sign group chats to the media.

“You understand, what a giant shock {that a} bunch of leakers get fired and immediately a bunch of hit items come out from the identical media that pedaled the Russia hoax,” Hegseth advised reporters on the White Home when requested in regards to the newest revelations.

Two sources with information of the matter advised NBC Information that Hegseth shared details about navy strikes in Yemen in a Sign group chat that included his spouse and his brother. The New York Instances was the primary to report the information, citing 4 unnamed sources.

“That is what the media does,” Hegseth stated this morning. “They take nameless sources from disgruntled former workers, after which they attempt to slash and burn folks and break their reputations. Not going to work with me.”

A number of prime Pentagon aides working for Hegseth had been fired in current weeks. John Ullyot, a former aide, wrote in an op-ed for Politico that officers working for Hegseth tried to smear the fired aides, “claiming they had been fired for leaking delicate info as a part of an investigation ordered earlier this month … none of that is true.” Ullyot stated he “was not a sufferer of this purge” and had left voluntarily.

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