Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth went scorched Earth on social media Wednesday after The Atlantic published war plans recently shared by Trump officials in a Signal group chat.
In the chat, officials discussed highly sensitive matters of national security about the then-upcoming strikes in Yemen, shocking Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the chat on the commercial messaging app.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted on X, formerly Twitter, Tuesday morning that “no classified material was sent to the thread.”
That differs from Goldberg, who said the texts “included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.”
A short time later, Hegseth took to X and claimed Goldberg didn’t know what he was talking about, and suggested the information that concerned the journalist were really nothing. Nothing at all.
So, let’s me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called “war plans” and those “plans” include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information.
Those are some really shitty war plans.
This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an “attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even close.
He then said that he was traveling to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command region to meet with commanders ― whom he described as “the guys who make REAL ‘war plans’” — and talking to troops.
Hegseth then said, “We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes.”
Hegseth’s tough-talking post attracted lots of attention on social media ― and much mockery.
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