There are some forces even inside Fox News still opposed to Donald Trump’s MAGA agenda.
But instead of taking on Trump, they are going after his key advisors.
And a Fox News star slammed Pete Hegseth with this nasty attack.
As American media watchdog reports:
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz accidentally invited anti-Trump activist and reporter for The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, onto a Signal app group chat where Trump administration officials debated a military strike against Houthi militants who had been attacking American naval vessels for over a year.
Goldberg falsely claimed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had texted war plans to the group, which the media falsely claimed were classified and put lives at risk.
Hegseth responded to the story by attacking Goldberg as a smear merchant who regularly peddles hoaxes – like the “suckers and losers” hoax Goldberg created from the 2020 campaign – about President Trump.
“So, you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of Russia, Russia, Russia! Or the fine people on both sides hoax. Or suckers and losers hoax. So, this is a guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does,” Hegseth said to reporters.
The real scandal was the fact Waltz had a leftist partisan like Goldberg saved into his phone contacts, meaning he’s leaked to Goldberg before.
But Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume decided to attack Hegseth instead.
Hume claimed Hegseth mismanaged the fallout of this story.
“There are a couple of iron rules for dealing with a scandal. One: get the facts out as fast as possible and don’t be afraid to take responsibility. Two: Once rule one is taken care of, don’t feed the story. With regard to the Signal message case, the administration is making a mess of rule two by getting bogged down in a dispute over whether the details of Yemen bombing raids were a war plan and whether those details were, or should have been, classified,” Hume stated.
But the details are what matters.
This is a fake scandal the media invented because they couldn’t find anything else to attack President Trump over.
The strike was a success, so the media had to latch onto the story to try and make it appear like the Trump administration operates like a chaotic clown car routine.
“All that has done is prolong the story. The same goes for attacking the reporter who, through no fault or action of his own, received the Signal conversation. All attacking him did was give him a reason to release further details from the Signal chat, which appeared to contradict the administration’s claim that no “war plans” were discussed. That gave the story at least another day of life,” Hume added.
But it was Hume who ignored the facts of the story.
Goldberg eventually released all the texts and they lined up with how Hegseth described the messages – and showed that Goldberg had oversold the story and published misleading claims about war plans.
Ok so the Atlantic released what they call the “war plans”—they’re depending on people not knowing (or caring) what this is, but to refer to it that way is a stretch. There’s nothing specific here, other than times at which events will occur. A leak of this kind could alert the… pic.twitter.com/dCss9wBby0
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) March 26, 2025