Trump refused to fire officials after the data leak scandal from Signal
US President Donald Trump has announced that he is not going to fire anyone from his team after the scandalous leak of messages from a group chat in the Signal application. He stated this on March 30 in an interview with NBC News.
"I think it's just a witch hunt, and fake news like you talk about it all the time, but it's just a witch hunt, and it shouldn't be talked about. I don't fire people because of fake news and witch hunts," Trump said on the TV channel.
The US president separately confirmed that he still trusts National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
According to NBC, Trump's comments came amid calls, including from his associates, to fire Waltz after he accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, to a secret chat.
The scandalous publication of the Atlantic magazine discussing attacks on the Houthis by the US administration became known on March 25. The editor-in-chief of Goldberg magazine stated that on March 11, he received a request to connect to Signal from a user under the nickname Mike Waltz. Two days later, Goldberg received a notification about being added to a group chat called "Houthis small group."
Then, on March 15, a user named Pete Hegseth posted a message that contained details of the upcoming strikes against the Houthis. According to the screenshots, Hegseth sent information about the departure of American F-18 fighter jets 31 minutes before the start of the mission.
Later, on March 26, it became known that the American human rights organization American Oversight filed a lawsuit in the federal court of the District of Columbia against the head of the Pentagon. In response, on March 27, Trump said the Defense minister had nothing to do with the incident.
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