Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied reports on Monday that he had discussed classified military operation plans with Trump administration officials through text messages on a Signal group chat that unintentionally included a journalist.
“I’ve heard that was characterized, nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth told reporters after landing in Hawaii.
Hegseth was responding to questions about a report published Monday by The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who alleged that he had been accidentally added to a group chat with several top U.S. officials discussing the renewed campaign of U.S. airstrikes against Houthi terrorists in Yemen last week….