Trump supports Hegseth despite new chat scandal

President Donald Trump stood behind his controversial Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth on Monday despite a new scandal over his reported use of messaging app Signal to discuss US strikes on Yemen with his wife and others.

- Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON:

"He's doing a great job," Trump said, dismissing the reports as "just fake news."

US media reported that Hegseth used Signal to talk about the air strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels with people not usually involved in such discussions, just weeks after it emerged that he also shared details about the strikes in another Signal chat to which a journalist had been inadvertently added.