“Anything going on?”: Vance returned to Hegseth’s Signal group chat to joke about scandal

The Department of Defense s inspector general issued a damning assessment on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth s use of app-based group chats to discuss sensitive information on Thursday finding that Hegseth s failure to follow protocol could have put US troops in harm s way The shame around accidentally including an editor at the Atlantic in sensitive discussions of upcoming strikes in Yemen was an early black mark against Hegseth and the Trump administration generally While the debate was unfolding however Vice President JD Vance returned to the discussion to crack jokes Related Who s a true American and who decides JD Vance has answers Following The Atlantic urgent the news of the Hegseth DOD s troubling prevention lapse Vance returned to the chat to joke about the furor surrounding Signalgate This chat s kind of dead Anything going on Vance wrote Start your day with essential news from Salon Sign up for our free morning newsletter Crash Module The inspector general s overview made it clear that Hegseth s lax protection could have had disastrous consequences Still Pentagon administrators celebrated the summary s release as a win The Inspector General review is a TOTAL exoneration of Secretary Hegseth and proves what we knew all along no classified information was shared This matter is resolved and the incident is closed Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell shared in a comment Read more about this topic Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk s hug made tongues wag Take away your freedom MAGA plots to use Charlie Kirk s death to go after the left Trump s Chicago meme continues admin s trend of fascist s tposting The post Anything going on Vance returned to Hegseth s Signal group chat to joke about controversy appeared first on Salon com