Trump sees conspiracy-criticism of Pete Hegseth Chateffare is increasing

U.S. defense minister Pete Hegseth is becoming increasingly under pressure in his chat affair after new revelations. For the first time, a member of the Republicans of President Donald Trump also called for consequences for Hegseth. The broadcaster NPR reported that the search for a successor had already started. The white house rejected this a little later.

Hegseth, according to media reports, is said to have shared military plans for attacks on the Huthi militia in Yemen in a group chat via the Signal app with his wife and other people. Hegseth’s brother and his personal lawyer are said to have been chat members-both, according to the media reports, have jobs in the Pentagon, but his wife does not.

Hegseth was already criticized for another signal group chat on the subject with senior government officials. There he shared detailed information on the planned course of the attacks. Since the editor -in -chief of the magazine “The Atlantic” had accidentally added to the chat, the entertainment came to the public. The government denied that the detailed information had been secret.

Hegseth said about the second signal boss at an Easter for families in the garden of the White House, the allegations were based on information from angry former employees who tried to “sit down people and ruin their reputation.” What a big surprise: a few leaves are fired and there is already a bunch of negative headlines, “says the former FOX news presenter.

The White House sees a conspiracy against Hegseth in the Ministry of Defense. “This happens when the entire Pentagon works against one and works against the monumental change that you want to implement,” said the spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt. Hegseth has released high -ranking generals and admirals to implement President Donald Trump’s national security agenda.

Republican congress member Don Bacon, a former airwaffen general and a member of the defense committee, told the magazine “Politico”, Hegseth acts amateurish. If the reports about the second signal chat were right, this was “completely unacceptable”. He did not want to tell the White House how to deal with it, but: “If I had that, I wouldn’t tolerate it.”

NPR reported, citing a non -named government official, that the White House had initiated the procedure for looking for a successor for Hegseth. Trump spokeswoman Leavitt described this as “fake news”. US President Donald Trump stands by his Defense Minister. “He was deployed to get rid of a lot of bad people. And that’s exactly what he did,” says Trump on Easter Monday.

According to the “New York Times”, Hegseth is said to have created the second chat himself. In January, around a dozen members from his personal and professional environment are said to have been part of the Signal Group-even before Hegseth’s swearing-in as Minister of Defense. He is said to have used the chat from his private phone.

Legal professor Ryan Goodman, who was once active as a lawyer in the Ministry of Defense, said in the broadcaster CNN that the second chat could potentially be a bigger problem for Hegseth because he “communicated attack plans to people who should never have received”.