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<\/p>\nAmid demands for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth\u2019s resignation due to a leaked Signal chat containing information about a military strike in Yemen, President Donald Trump supported Hegseth on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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After Hegseth sent administration officials information about the strike in a Signal chat that unintentionally included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, who published the full messages on Wednesday morning, the president discussed the controversy.<\/p>\n
In the aftermath of the controversy, when a number of Congressional Democrats called for Hegseth to resign, reporters asked Trump if he should think about doing so.<\/p>\n
He has nothing to do with this; Hegseth is doing a fantastic job. Hegseth. How is Hegseth involved in this? Trump answered.<\/p>\n
The president acknowledged to DailyMail.com that Mike Waltz, his national security advisor in the White House, accepted responsibility for Goldberg\u2019s unintentional inclusion in the Signal chat.<\/p>\n
\u201cMike Waltz\u201d I suppose he claimed responsibility. Nobody else had anything to do with it. When questioned about the probe, Trump remarked, \u201cI guess, I don\u2019t know, I was told it was Mike.\u201dTrump once more downplayed the controversy surrounding Hegseth\u2019s sharing of classified information that might have jeopardized the operation, focusing instead on the mission\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
The president questioned whether the Signal app was functioning properly and why Democrats were demanding Hegseth\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all a witch hunt, you see. Trump stated, \u201cYou want to know if Signal works or not. To be honest with you, I don\u2019t know if Signal works. I think that Signal could be defective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although it is not regarded as a secure platform for classified information, the encrypted app that removes messages after they have been received is widely used for communications in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou, we, and everyone else use Signal, but we\u2019ll need to determine whether it\u2019s a functioning platform or not.\u201d Trump stated.<\/p>\n
Hegseth\u2019s resignation was demanded by Democratic Senators Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego of Arizona for disclosing information about the operation on the platform.<\/p>\n
Kelly wrote on X that the Signal incident was the result of having the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in history.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate that no service members lost their lives, but Secretary Hegseth must step down for the sake of our nation and our military,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis might have resulted in the deaths of our men and women!\u201d Social media posts were made by Gallego.<\/p>\n
He went on. \u201cThe Defense Secretary must step down.\u201d It\u2019s embarrassing how inept they are and how they covered it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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