The White House said Trump stood behind Heggs after Yemen plans to share it again.
White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump stood behind Pete Hegseth.
“The president has absolutely confidence in Secretary Heggs. I speak to him [Trump] This morning, he stood behind him. ” Levitt told reporters.
Hegseth’s revelation, using unclassified messaging system signals, shared a second time highly sensitive security details, which was a delicate moment for him, as senior officials were removed from the Pentagon last week as part of an internal leak investigation.
In the second chat, Hegseth shared details of the attack, similar to the details revealed last month by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of Atlantic magazine last month.
The second chat included about a dozen people, created during the Hegseth confirmation process to discuss administrative issues rather than detailed military plans. These include Hergs’ brother, who is a Pentagon’s Department of Homeland Security Liaison.
Levitt said Heggs had no classified information about any signal chat.
“I’ve talked to the president and we’ll continue to fight on the same page,” Heggs said.
The Trump administration’s national security team continues to deny any confidential information released after the Atlantic published a signal message app chat’s entire transcript that revealed U.S. officials discussing air strikes on Yemen.
The latest revelation comes days after Dan Caldwell, one of Hegseth’s leading advisers, was escorted from the Pentagon after being escorted a few days after being identified in an investigation into a leak from the U.S. Department of Defense.
Caldwell played a key role in Hegseth and was appointed as the Pentagon role by the secretary in the first signal chat.
Caldwell posted on Twitter on Saturday: “We are very disappointed with the way the Department of Defense services ended.” “Pentagon officials’ unfounded attacks outside the door ruined our role.”
After Caldwell left, Darin Selnick, a senior official who recently became Hegseth’s deputy chief of staff, and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff of Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, was placed Friday and fired Friday.
John Ullyot, a former Pentagon spokesman, resigned last week, criticized the Pentagon leaders in the journal Political Magazine published on Sunday. Ullyot alleges that Hegseth’s team spread unverified claims about three top officials who were fired last week, falsely accusing them of leaking sensitive information to media outlets.
