Pete Hegseth: Fresh turn in the signal -gate scandal? Bombshell report on Pete Hegseth makes surprising revelation about the Pentagon business

The US defense minister Pete Hegseth, who was involved in the Signal Chat scandal, said reported the messaging app in “At least a dozen separate chats” in order to run official Pentagon business, according to Wall Street Journal. Pete Hegseth discussed the Pentagon business in at least 12 separate signal -app chats, reported the WSJ on Monday and quoted persons who were familiar with his management practices.The report indicates that Hegseth used the encrypted messaging app much more often than previously known. Sources said WSJ that Hegseth Signal used extensively and preferred to operate the daily operations of the Ministry of Defense using the mobile app using standard pentagon communication lines.
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Fresh trouble for Hegseth

Pete Hegseth already stood out with massive criticism after reporting that military attack details were shared in a group chat, which included Hegseth's wife, brother and personal lawyer. The controversy took place for a month after a journalist had been added to a signal group chat, in which US cabinet officers, including Hegseth, had discussed plans for the attack by Houthi rebels in Yemen.

“In one case, he informed the encrypted app helpers to inform foreign governments about a military operation that develops,” reported the journal. “He also used the non -governmental intelligence service to discuss media appearances, foreign trips, his schedule and other not classified but sensitive information, said two people.”

In March, the use of signal officials was examined by Trump administration after the Atlantic reported at the beginning of this year that Hegseth, the then national security consultant Mike Waltz and several other civil servants at cabinet level, highly sensitive plans for a military attack against Yemen's Houthis in a signal group chat. in Hegseth's use of the “not classified application” for the exchange of sensitive military actions.Read too: “Can't make a joke?”: Trump's bizarre answer to his “loved” viral picture of him as a Pope

Hegseth received another counter reaction in April after reporting that he may have shared information about the military's military campaign in Yemen in a second signal group chat with members of his family. It was also reported that Hegseth has set up a signal on several Pentagon computers in response to a ban on personal telephones.

According to the report, Hegseth reports on his adjutant via app (signal) instructions to inform foreign government officials about ongoing military operation. The US defense minister also used the signal to coordinate the appearance of the media, to plan foreign trips, to manage his schedule and not to classify others, but to discuss sensitive problems, the report says. The journal reported that Hegseth himself set up many of the signal chats themselves and sent messages from an unsecured line in the Ministry of Defense and his personal phone.

Michael Waltz, who was removed last week as a national security advisor, was the one who originally added him to Chat, to whom Vice President JD Vance, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, Director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard and several other Senior National Security Aides belonged.

Hegseth vehemently defended his reported behavior, and he and the White House insisted that this conversation or other conversations they had had no classified information.

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Trump defended Pete Hegseth and when the president was asked about the controversy, the president said: “Pete does a great job. Everyone is satisfied with him.”

Officials from the White House played reports on military plans that were shared in a second chat in the signal group, but did not contest this.

Trump said reporters that he had “great trust” in his defense minister. “Do you bring a signal again? I thought they gave up two weeks ago. They are the same old things from the media,” he said. “Try to find something new,” he said.