‘Don’t Bring That Up Again’: Trump Scolds Reporter for Asking Question About Signalgate
President Donald Trump scolded a reporter on Thursday after he was asked about the Pentagon’s investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his use of the app Signal to discuss top-secret war plans.
During a press conference on Air Force One, the reporter asked Trump, “On Pete Hegseth and this [inspector general] investigation, do you want to weigh in on that?”
“What is it?” Trump asked.
After the reporter informed him, “There’s an I.G. investigation into the secretary of defense’s use of the Signal app,” Trump replied, “Oh, you’re bringing that up again? Don’t bring that up again. Your editors probably. That’s such a wasted story, so what else?”
The reporter then asked Trump a question about Chinese ownership of American farmland.
Acting Pentagon Inspector General Steven Stebbins informed Hegseth on Thursday that an evaluation would take place into his “use of an unclassified commercially available messaging application to discuss information pertaining to military actions in Yemen.”
“The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business,” Stebbins explained. “Additionally, we will review compliance with classification and records retention requirements.”
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that the Signal case, commonly referred to as “Signalgate,” had “been closed.”
“This case has been closed here at the White House, as far as we are concerned,” she said. “There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward.”
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