Even a Republican Congressman turns Pete Heget after Signalgate 2.0

Pete Heget, President Donald Trump’s Defense Minister, is on the ropes. On the weekend, New York Times reported this Heget has participated in another text scandal involving a encrypted chat application signal. Then, on Monday, NPR reported this The administration wanted to replace heget. However, not long after the publication of the public operator was published, the White House denied and denied the report.

NPR writes that an anonymous source described only as a US employee said the White House “began the process of searching for a new minister of defense.”

“This story @NPR is a total fake news based on an anonymous source that obviously has no idea what they are talking about,” tweet White House press secretary Carolyn Levit. “As the president said this morning, he stands strongly behind @secdef.”

The other account of the X administration, a quick reply 47, also tweets About the story: “Wrong. Fake news!”

While the administration adheres to the side of heget (at least in public), there are other adverse signs for the Secretary of Defense. Republican legislator Don Bacon of Nebraska broke ranks on Monday and became the first GOP legislator who suggested that heget may have to be fired, Politico reportsS Bacon, who chaired a cyber subcommittee on the Chamber’s Armed Forces Committee, said he had always thought heget was a little green about the work: “I had concerns from the beginning because Pete Heget had not much experience,” Bacon told The Outlet. “I like him on Fox. But he has an attempt to manage one of the largest organizations in the world? It’s a problem.”

“If it is true that he had another (signal) chat with his family, for the missions against Hutiis, this is completely unacceptable,” Bacon said.

Heget’s reputation was heavily damaged by a scandal last month in which he Accidentally text messages about military plans Including a bombing in Yemen next to the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic. Hegt uses the encrypted application signal to share operating details. On Sunday, The Times reported that heget was involved in another signal text chain. This time, Heget has shared detailed plans for the war in Yemen with his brother, his wife and personal lawyer. Gismodo turned to the White House for comment.

Bacon continued: “I will not tell the White House how to manage this … but it is unacceptable to me and I would not tolerate it if I were in the lead.” He added that “it seems that there is a collapse inside the government. “There are many – many – smoke comes out of the Pentagon and I have to believe there is some fire somewhere.”