{"id":39398,"date":"2025-04-21T19:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/trump-says-hegseth-is-doing-a-great-job-despite-reports-of-second-signal-chat\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:55:41","slug":"trump-says-hegseth-is-doing-a-great-job-despite-reports-of-second-signal-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/trump-says-hegseth-is-doing-a-great-job-despite-reports-of-second-signal-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Hegseth is \u2018doing a great job\u2019 despite reports of second Signal chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president dismisses criticism of defense secretary sharing information on strikes in Yemen to his family<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/21\/donald-trump-latest-news-pete-hegseth-signal-live-us-politics-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> offered public support for defense secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/pete-hegseth\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> a day after it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/20\/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-yemen-attack\">emerged<\/a> that Hegseth had shared information about US strikes in Yemen last month in a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/signal-group-chat-leak\">Signal group chat<\/a> that included family, his personal lawyer and several top Pentagon aides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s doing a great job. Ask the Houthis how he\u2019s doing,\u201d Trump said dismissively, referring to the rebel group in Yemen targeted by those missile strikes, on the sidelines of the White House Easter egg roll event on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/21\/trump-pete-hegseth-signal-group-chat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president dismisses criticism of defense secretary sharing information on strikes in Yemen to his family US politics live \u2013 latest updates Donald Trump offered public support for defense secretary Pete Hegseth a day after it emerged that Hegseth had shared information about US strikes in Yemen last month in a second Signal group chat &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says Hegseth is \u2018doing a great job\u2019 despite reports of second Signal chat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/trump-says-hegseth-is-doing-a-great-job-despite-reports-of-second-signal-chat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says Hegseth is \u2018doing a great job\u2019 despite reports of second Signal chat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}