Pressure is building on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Washington Post first reported and the News Hour confirmed that Hegseth had the unclassified messaging app Signal installed on a computer in his Pentagon office. All of this is unfolding as chaos is mounting at the Pentagon with the firings of top Hegseth aides.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    My biggest thing is just the way that everything is treated as a smoking gun. This is what got us Trump on the first place. It’s good to question controversial actions by elected and appointed people, or really anybody…but skepticism requires context, otherwise it’s just a conspiracy theory, and we’ve seen where that leads.