US President Donald Trump believes that attempts to fan the flames of a scandal surrounding the leak of data on US military strikes on Houthi positions are "witch hunt".
"I don't think the administration is downplaying and downplaying what happened. I think it's all a witch hunt. That's all. "I wasn't involved, I wasn't there, but I can tell you that the results of the airstrikes are amazing," the head of state told reporters.
He dismissed the idea that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should consider resigning after the Signal leak scandal involving data on US military strikes in Yemen.
"Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do with this," Trump said.
On March 24, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published an article reporting that on March 11 he had received a request to connect to the Signal messenger from a user with the pseudonym Mike Walz (the name of the US President's national security adviser). Two days later, the journalist received a notification that he had been added to a group chat in which members of the US administration were discussing strikes on Yemen. According to the journalist, on March 15, a user named Pete Hegseth posted a message that contained details of upcoming strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, including targets, weapons, and an expected time for the strikes to begin, which Goldberg said coincided with the time when the first social media posts about the bombings were made.
Trump said the group had not released classified information. He stressed that he trusted everyone on his national security team, including Walz, despite the data leak scandal. Walz, for his part, said he did not know why Goldberg was included in the closed group.