{"id":17471,"date":"2025-04-21T18:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:43:17","slug":"white-house-backs-hegseth-leavitt-says-entire-pentagon-is-resisting-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17471","title":{"rendered":"White House backs Hegseth, Leavitt says \u2018entire Pentagon\u2019 is resisting him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The New York Times reported that Hegseth&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/20\/ullyot-pentagon-hegseth-chaos-00300695\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shared sensitive information about military operations<\/a>&nbsp;in Yemen in a private chat on the Signal app that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer \u2014 the second reported instance of the secretary sharing operational plans in an unclassified chat. The revelations have reignited the so-called Signalgate scandal and deepened scrutiny over Hegseth\u2019s judgment and leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Ullyot \u2014 once a vocal supporter of the Defense secretary \u2014 accused Hegseth\u2019s team of spreading unverified claims about three top officials who were fired last week, falsely accusing them of leaking sensitive information to media outlets.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The New York Times reported that Hegseth shared sensitive information about military operations in Yemen in a private chat on the Signal app that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer \u2014 the second reported instance of the secretary sharing operational plans in an unclassified chat. The revelations have reignited the so-called Signalgate scandal and deepened scrutiny over Hegseth\u2019s judgment and leadership.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ullyot \u2014 once a vocal supporter of the Defense secretary \u2014 accused Hegseth\u2019s team of spreading unverified claims about three top officials who were fired last week, falsely accusing them of leaking sensitive information to media outlets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/21\/leavitt-trump-stands-strongly-behind-embattled-hegseth-00300749<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[162,455,221,335,170],"class_list":["post-17471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-defense","tag-department-of-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-pentagon","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17472,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions\/17472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}