Fox News’ Brit Hume Roasts Pete Hegseth’s Excuse For New Scandal | EUROtoday

Longtime Fox News analyst Brit Hume known as out Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s newest excuse for the group messaging scandal through which extremely categorized info was by chance shared with a journalist.

Asked to clarify, Hegseth as an alternative attacked the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,” Hegseth mentioned.

But Hume was fast to level out the evident flaw in Hegseth’s excuse: It wasn’t a hoax, because the National Security Council confirmed that the messages by chance despatched to Goldberg have been legit:

National safety adviser Michael Waltz reportedly added Goldberg accidentally to a bunch chat that additionally included Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard because the group mentioned extremely categorized plans for navy motion in Yemen and different extraordinarily delicate issues.

Despite Hegseth’s claims, the group chat was confirmed by the White House.

“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes mentioned in a press release. “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”