<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth strongly pushed back on a report from a left-wing journalist on Monday who alleged that he was included in a Signal chat group where he claims that sensitive military attack plans were shared.</p>
<p>Hegseth made the remarks after landing in Hawaii for meetings about the United States military&#8217;s preparedness to confront threats in the Indo-Pacific region after The Atlantic&#8217;s Jeffrey Goldberg published a report suggesting that Trump administration officials shared classified materials on the encrypted messaging app about the United States&#8217; attack plans on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called &#8216;journalist&#8217; who&#8217;s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don&#8217;t know, the hoaxes of &#8216;Russia, Russia, Russia,&#8217; or the &#8216;Fine People On Both Sides&#8217; hoax, or the &#8216;Suckers And Losers&#8217; hoax,&#8221; Hegseth said. &#8220;So this is the guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I would love to comment on the Houthi campaign because of the skill and courage of our troops. I&#8217;ve monitored it very closely from the beginning, and you see, we&#8217;ve been managing four years of deferred maintenance under the Trump administration,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our troops, our sailors, were getting shot at as targets. Our ships couldn&#8217;t sail through, and when they did shoot back, it was purely defensively, or at shacks in Yemen. President Trump said no more. We will re-establish deterrence. We will open freedom of navigation, and we will ultimately decimate the Houthis, which is exactly what we&#8217;re doing as we speak, from the beginning, overwhelmingly.&#8221;</p>
<p>When asked about how a journalist was &#8220;privy&#8221; to the information included in the Signal chat, Hegseth fired back, addressing Goldberg&#8217;s characterization of what was discussed.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nobody was texting war plans, and that&#8217;s all I have to say about that,&#8221; Hegseth said.</p>
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