Trump White House Denies NPR Report That It’s Replacing Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary Amid Signal Leak Fallout
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The Trump administration has denied NPR’s report that the president’s camp was looking to replace Pete Hegseth as its defense secretary following his recent Signal Chat controversy.
“WRONG. Fake News!” the Trump administration’s X account Rapid Response 47 said in a tweet on Monday.
The administration’s response comes after published a story on Monday titled: “The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary.” In the write-up, journalist Tom Bowman detailed that the job shift was connected to Hegseth recent fumbles in the position, specifically his accidental sharing of the government’s plans to launch military strikes on Yemen, plans that were released by the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg after he was accidentally added to Hegseth’s text message chat.
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