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REPORTER: Mr. President, any update on Secretary Hegseth? Your confidence in him?
TRUMP: About what?
REPORTER: About Signal – having Signal on his –
TRUMP: I don’t view Signal as important. I think that’s fake news. So, I don’t view it as important.
From yesterday’s Washington Post reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal, a commercially available messaging app, on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, said three people familiar with the matter, illustrating the extent to which he has integrated use of the unclassified communications platform at the center of his political troubles with the highly secure systems the U.S. government relies on to safeguard military plans and other sensitive information.
Hegseth’s decision earlier this year to install Signal on a desktop computer in the Pentagon was a work-around that enabled him to use Signal in a classified space, where his cellphone and other personal electronics are not permitted, and communicate with ease with anyone — other government officials or his family — who is outside of the imposing military headquarters.
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Reporter: Any update on Sec Hegseth, your confidence in him having Signal on his phone?
Trump: I don’t view Signal as important. I think it’s fake news, really.🤔
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