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Trump backs defence secretary after reports of second Signal chat leak

www.bbc.co.uk

"Pete's doing a great job," Trump told reporters on Monday. "Everybody's happy with him."

Trump told reporters he has "great confidence" in his defence secretary.

"Are you bringing up Signal again? I thought they gave that up two weeks ago. It's the same old stuff from the media," he said. "Try finding something new," he said.

edit: added archive https://archive.ph/KkO0s

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"Wait, are you actually upset we robbed a bank again? Come on, you guys were already upset about the last bank robbery. We'll keep robbing banks, find something new"
- I'm not sure he realizes it happened again.
  
  I know donnie has memory issues, but hopefully not this bad yet? The reporter did clarify in the conversation this was a second incident, after that he shook his head and immediately replied "its all the same old stuff. that's an old one, try finding something new".
  There's a clip of the interaction in the article.
  
  Isn't it a separate chat but from the same operation / time as the one that was made public by The Atlantic editor?
  My understanding is it is a new revelation of sharing sensitive military information with inappropriate people, but it's from the same set of Yemen strikes.
  I'm not saying that's not bad. It shows Hegseth didn't just write to stuff in Waltz's chat where someone was mistakenly added. He started his own and included family! Then he kept that quiet when the Waltz chat was exposed. But we also need to be keeping the facts straight. This is a new revelation of past acts.