Topline
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed Monday that “nobody was texting war plans” after The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published an article saying he was accidentally added to a Signal group where Hegseth and other top Trump administration officials discussed highly sensitive plans to attack Houthi targets in Yemen, which has drawn heavy backlash and scrutiny of Trump’s Pentagon head pick.
Key Facts
Hegseth, who was asked if he could share how sensitive plans were allegedly disclosed with a journalist, bashed Goldberg, saying he “has made a profession of peddling hoaxes.”
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