By Molly Goddard
2:07am PDT, Apr 22, 2025
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Did
Pete Hegseth make another security slip-up?
According to a Sunday, April 20, report from
The New York Times,
Donald Trump's Defense Secretary allegedly shared sensitive military information in a group chat with his wife, brother and personal lawyer centered around the attack on the Houthis in Yemen in March.
Keep reading to find out what Hegseth reportedly revealed in the messages…
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Per the report citing four different sources, Pete Hegseth sent the same information to his inner circle about the strikes he previously sent to
The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg — who was mistakenly added to a Signal group chat filled with members of Donald Trump's administration.
According to
Reuters, Hegseth's wife,
Jennifer Rauchet — a former Fox News producer — has reportedly been present at many meetings with foreign military officials.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon responded to the allegation, claiming the media was "enthusiastically taking the grievances of disgruntled former employees as the sole sources for their article."
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The supposed leak comes as insiders claim the Defense Department has turned chaotic with Pete Hegseth at the helm.
In an op-ed published by
Politico on Sunday, April 20, ex-Pentagon Spokesperson
John Ullyot alleged the past few weeks had been the "month from h*** and emphasized how President Donald Trump deserves better.
Per
Reuters, one of the former Army National Guard officer's top advisers,
Dan Caldwell, was dismissed after an investigation tied him to the mishandling of
confidential information.
Hegseth's Deputy Chief of Staff,
Dan Selnick, and the Chief of Staff to the leader's own deputy,
Colin Carroll, were also placed on administrative leave.
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With the alleged mishandling of information, prominent Democrats have called for Pete Hegseth to step down from his position in Donald Trump's administration.
"We keep learning how Pete Hegseth put lives at risk. But Trump is still too weak to fire him. Pete Hegseth must be fired," Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer wrote in a Sunday, April 20, message shared to X.
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After Pete Hegseth's accidental text message situation, the Pentagon's acting inspector general,
Steven Stebbins, confirmed he would be looking into the text messaging breach.
"The objective of this
evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business," Stebbins reportedly penned in a letter to Hegseth via the
Associated Press.
