There's another Signal scandal in President Donald Trump's administration, and it's almost as if it is a story out of the satirical site "The Onion," said MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Monday afternoon.
"Another day, another Signal scandal for Pete Hegseth. Screenshots from another text chat suggest administration officials wanted to deploy an elite military division onto the streets of American cities. And they put that in writing, and someone saw it. This is not 'The Onion,'" said Wallace, teasing the segment.
It is the third time Hegseth has been part of a Signal scandal. The first involved his discussion with Cabinet officials over secret war plans. The Signal chat included a reporter, however. The second was the revelation that Hegseth also revealed the classified intelligence to his family on a Signal chat. This makes it the third time Hegseth's Signal chats have been reported publicly.
Wallace said that it's arguably not the most significant part of the story, but there's another Signalgate.
"All right, so let this sink in somehow," Wallace began. "It is arguably the second most egregious part of this new reporting that high-level officials in the Trump administration still appear to be sharing sensitive information in cavalier fashion on the messaging app called Signal.
"Just wait until you hear what they were saying and messaging on Signal," Wallace continued.
She cited a conversation between Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Anthony Salisbury, Trump's deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, and Patrick Weaver, senior advisor to Secretary of Defense Hegseth.
It "happened in a crowded space. So crowded and so public, in fact, that someone was able to take pictures of their conversation and catch their exchange and then share them with a reporter at the Minnesota Star Tribune so we could all see them contained therein. Among dozens of messages, a discussion about the deployment of the Army's vaunted 82nd Airborne, an elite infantry division, a deployment not to a faraway combat zone, but to the streets of — wait for it — Portland to crack down on."
She noted it shows the lengths that Hegseth is willing to go to in the ongoing takeover of American cities.
