The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, denied a history of National Public Radio (NPR) on Monday that alleged that the White House is looking to replace the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth.
In an X post, Leavitt labeled NPR’s article as “false news” and “an anonymous source based”. NPR article arrived after New York Times And CNN published reports using anonymous sources, claiming that Hegseth had shared details about military attacks in the hutis with his wife, brother and lawyer in a signal chat.
“This story of @NPR is a total news based on an anonymous source that clearly has no idea what they are talking about,” Leavitt wrote in his publication. “As the president said this morning, they are strongly behind @Secdef.”
According to NPR, a “source” said that “Hegseeth used the signal messaging application on his personal smartphone, detailing careful information per minute about air attacks in Houthi objectives in Yemen”:
The source said that Hegseeth used the signal messaging application on her personal smartphone, detailing classified information from minute by minute about air attacks in Houthi objectives in Yemen. It happened approximately at the same time in March that Hegseth shared details with the main white house officials in a different signal chat group that accidentally included a journalist. That filtration, hours before the air attacks hit, could have in danger of American pilots if US adversaries intercepted information about the time of strikes. The hutis have already demolished the drones of US predators.
The spokesman of the Chief Pentagon Sean Parnell also answer to the claim of New York Times And “all the other false news that repeats their garbage”, affirming that it is “another day, another old story, back from among the dead.”
“Another day, another old story, back from among the dead,” Parnell said in a statement. “The media that hate Trump are still obsessed with destroying anyone committed to the agenda of President Trump. This time, the New York Times, and all other false new new ones who repeat their garbage, are taking enthusiasticly the complaints of the former unhappy employees of the former employees as the only source of their article. They were only based on the words of the people who were dismissed to the secretary and agenda of the president and the agenda.
He New York TimesCiting “people familiar with chat”, said that the second signal chat “included his wife and on a boxes of other people, and was” created by Mr. Hegseeth “:
Unlike the chat in which the Atlantic was included by mistake, the recently revealed was created by Mr. Hegseeth. He included his wife and on a boxes from other people from his personal and professional internal circle in January, before his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, and was appointed “Defense | Team team,” said the family of people with the chat. He used his private phone, instead of his government, to access the signal chat.
In March, the AtlanticChief editor Jeffrey Goldberg revealed in an article that had accidentally added to a signal group chat of the National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. The group, which was titled “Houthi PC Small Group”, included people such as Vice President JD Vance, director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Hegseeth and others.
Goldberg wrote to the article that several members in the chat of the signal had a backup and after discussion days were launched before military attacks on the hutis were launched in Yemen.
In the article, Goldberg adds that on Saturday, March 15, Hegseeth shared information that “contained operational details of fortchoming attacks on Yemen, including information on objectives, weapons that the United States will be deployed and the attack sequins”:
The only person who responded to Hegseeth’s update was the person identified as vice president. “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote. (Two other users added prayer emoji later).
According to Hegesh’s text, the first detonations in Yemen would feel two hours, therefore, at 1:45 pm east time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this signal chat were real, I reasoned, Houthi’s objectives would soon be the bed with bombs. Around 1:55, I checked X and looked in Yemen. Then explosions were heard in Sanaa, the capital city.
On Monday, President Donald Trump responded to reports on Hegseeth’s second signal chat, stating that he was “doing a great job”, according to the New York Times.
“He’s doing a great job: ask the hutis how he is,” Trump said.
