Trump continues to support his defense minister

White House spokesman Caroline Liwit announced today (Monday) that US President Donald Trump continues to support US Defense Minister Pete Hegst; Hegest has been accused of publishing confidential information on Pentagon operations in Yemen.

“The President is standing behind the defense minister,” Liwit said in an interview with FoxNews. “He does a great job in the Pentagon’s leadership.”

He also regretted that some inside the Pentagon opposed the reforms that Hegest intends to implement. “They are leaked to the mainstream media and lie,” Liwit added.

On Sunday, the New York Times reported that Hegest shared information about future attacks on Yemen in a private group in signal messengers last month; A group whose members were not only his colleagues, but also his wife, his brother and his lawyer.

The disclosure of US confidential information in signal messengers raises more questions about Hegest’s use of these messengers to convey extremely sensitive security information, at a very sensitive time when some senior US officials were fired last week for investigating information disclosure.

In the new controversy, US Secretary of Defense – formerly executor of the Fox News network and has no experience in the military and political arena – shared details of the attack, similar to those published last month by the Atlantic Magazine.

In a previous controversy related to signal messengers, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of Atlantic Magazine, was mistakenly added to another group in the signal app, and this shameful event led to all the senior Trump administration’s senior security officials. The first conversation group in the signal that produced a scandal was formed by Trump’s National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and he accepted the responsibility. But the second group was personally created by Hegst.

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