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Pentagon Denies New York Times Report with Anonymous Sources Accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of Leaking Yemen Strike Details in Second Private Signal Chat with Wife, Brother, and Lawyer

In yet another desperate attempt to undermine President Trump’s administration, The New York Times published a baseless report accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of leaking sensitive Yemen strike details in a private Signal chat.

The Pentagon has swiftly and forcefully denied these allegations, with Chief Spokesman Sean Parnell labeling the story as “fake news” driven by disgruntled former employees with clear motives to sabotage Hegseth and Trump’s agenda.

This latest attack comes on the heels of the firing of three former Pentagon officials—Dan Caldwell, Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll—accused of leaking unauthorized information.

The Times claims Hegseth shared details of a March 15 Yemen strike in a Signal group chat named “Defense | Team Huddle,” which included his wife, Jennifer, his brother, Phil, and his personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore.

The article further alleges that Hegseth shared similar details in another chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg.

These accusations, sourced from four anonymous individuals, lack any concrete evidence and reek of political vendetta.

The New York Times reported:

Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was mistakenly included, the newly revealed one was created by Mr. Hegseth. It included his wife and about a dozen other people from his personal and professional inner circle in January, before his confirmation as defense secretary, and was named “Defense | Team Huddle,” the people familiar with the chat said. He used his private phone, rather than his government one, to access the Signal chat.

The continued inclusion following Mr. Hegseth’s confirmation of his wife, brother and personal lawyer, none of whom had any apparent reason to be briefed on operational details of a military operation as it was getting underway, is sure to raise further questions about his adherence to security protocols.

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Mr. Hegseth created the separate Signal group initially as a forum for discussing routine administrative or scheduling information, two of the people familiar with the chat said. The people said Mr. Hegseth typically did not use the chat to discuss sensitive military operations and said it did not include other cabinet-level officials.

Mr. Hegseth shared information about the Yemen strikes in the “Defense | Team Huddle” chat at roughly the same time he was putting the same details in the other Signal chat group that included senior U.S. officials and The Atlantic, the people familiar with Mr. Hegseth’s chat group said.

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In the case of Mr. Hegseth’s Signal group, a U.S. official declined to comment on whether Mr. Hegseth shared detailed targeting information but maintained that there was no national security breach.

But according to the Pentagon, the entire narrative is nothing more than a politically motivated smear campaign aimed at derailing the Trump administration’s bold military leadership and undermining Secretary Hegseth’s credibility as he continues to clean house at the Department of Defense.

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MSNBC Suggests Trump Plans to Deport African-Americans

The latest racial-tinged conspiracy theory that the TDS-addled corporate state media is running with is that the Trump administration is developing plans to deport African-Americans, otherwise known as “people of color.”

Let the brutal ogre and former Kamala Harris press ops goon who has rebranded herself as a journalist, Symone Sanders, explain:

We’ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week. And her op-ed talked about that we think democracies are — the way they die is dramatically, through these wars, and blood is shed, and it’s cinematic in a sense. But really, the realistic way in which democracies die, is it is dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece. And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air. I’m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia’s specific case, the case of the gentleman who’s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that’s what the more — the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don’t have criminal records — that is why this is so important. If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us. To be very clear, it’s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia: The Soros connection

A first-pass run at the life and times of the left’s latest version of George Floyd, repatriated illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, flown to his native El Salvador and imprisoned as an MS-13 gang member, leaves one marveling at how the radical left sure knows how to pick ’em.

After all, the guy is a composite of every detested stereotypes about migrants — illegal border crosser, ignored his final deportation order, identified in police reports as an MS-13 gang member accepted by two judges, crazy high-speed driver endangering others, suspected human trafficker, (with a mysterious dropping of those charges by the Biden DoJ), multiple incident wife-beater whose wife told cops in a handwritten report that he kicked, punched, bruised, ripped the shirt and shorts off of, and sent her fleeing from their house; the wife taking an Uber to get away from him, writing that she was terrified to be around him. She also said she had documentary evidence of his brutality…

How do they pick such poster boys — boost them up as noble worker-saints just minding their own business only to be persecuted by President Trump, then rally the media to repeat the ridiculous narrative, until of course, it falls apart with the police records? After all, there were quite a few they could have chosen from to make their next hero — the Venezuelan gay “hairdresser,” the soccer player who was said to have been beaten up by the Maduro regime, several others. How did they pick Abrego-Garcia for congressional delegations to San Salvador, extensive media coverage, and all that?

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The ‘Maryland Man’ Hoax Is Designed To Criminalize Immigration Enforcement

The propaganda press’s latest manufactured sob story isn’t just another hit piece targeting President Donald Trump — it’s part of a manufactured, strategic campaign to guilt Americans out of supporting immigration enforcement and delegitimize the very concept of national borders.

Last month the Trump administration deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien and alleged MS-13 gang member from El Salvador — to a prison in El Salvador.

Abrego Garcia crossed the border illegally in 2011 and was detained in March of 2019. He was charged with removability and was later denied bond when an immigration judge concluded that evidence “show[ed] [Abrego Garcia] is a verified member of MS-13” and found that he failed to prove “that his release from custody would not pose a danger to others.” As explained by Will Chamberlain, senior counsel at the Article 3 Project, Abrego filed an asylum claim six months later. In turn, a judge ruled Abrego Garcia could not be deported to El Salvador. As Chamberlain explained, “Any third country would be sufficient.”

Following legal challenges, “The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court’s decision to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison,” as reported by Fox News.

El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said he had no plans to send Garcia back to the United States. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele told reporters on Monday. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”

But reading the headlines from the left-wing media, one would think the administration snatched a soccer dad off the streets of Baltimore.

The Associated Press’s Seung Min Kim and Marcos Alemán wrote, “El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing a Maryland man back to the US.” Politico’s Myah Ward and Eli Stokols wrote, “El Salvador won’t return wrongly deported Maryland man.” The New York Times’ Zolan Kanno-Youngs wrote, “El Salvador’s Leader Says He Won’t Return Wrongly Deported Maryland Man.” And NBC News ran the headline “El Salvador won’t return Maryland man to the U.S …”

This “reporting” wasn’t sloppy journalism; it was a deliberate reframing designed to erase the distinction between criminal deportation and family separation, between illegal alien and U.S. citizen. And it isn’t just the left-wing legacy media spreading the misinformation — Democrats joined in, treating the alleged MS-13 member like some long-lost neighbor.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he “intend[s] to go to El Salvador this week to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s condition and discuss his release.”

“Kilmar was illegally ABDUCTED and deported by the Trump admin. He must be brought home NOW.”

But it was Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s post on X that said the quiet part out loud: “If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?”

“This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States,” she continued.

And there it is. The entire “Maryland man” hoax isn’t about the single deportation of an illegal alien illegally residing in the United States — it’s simply being exploited by the left in their psychological operation designed to gin up opposition to Trump and terrify Americans into ceding their right to reclaim their sovereignty and deport foreign nationals.

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Liberal media distorts immigration enforcement to attack Trump’s policies

Mainstream media outlets are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their attempts to portray the Trump administration’s enforcement of the Immigration and Nationality Act as racist and immoral. The corporate newspapers and the “Big News” online outlets are awash in sob stories about migrants who are now facing deportation because they broke American laws.

Every one of these articles suffers from two common flaws: They deliberately omit key facts and intentionally misrepresent the state of U.S. immigration law to create the impression that foreign lawbreakers are hapless victims of an unjust system.

One particularly egregious example is a piece recently published by The New York Times. Titled “‘Where’s Alex? A Beloved Caregiver Is Swept Up in Trump’s Green Card Crackdown,” the article tells the story of Luke, a severely autistic man from Falls Church, Virginia, and his caregiver Alfredo Orellana, a green card holder. Mr. Orellana has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and placed in deportation proceedings on the basis of a criminal conviction.

According to The Times, this is totally unjust because Mr. Orellana isn’t really a criminal, just a guy who made a small mistake while he was on drugs. Although the law says that “green card holders convicted of certain crimes can be deported,” The Times consulted unidentified legal experts who claim the “government has usually opted not to target those people unless they have committed particularly serious crimes.” Moreover, The Times claims the enforcement actions taking place are because “under Mr. Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has taken a sprawling view of who should be targeted for deportation.”

That narrative has a significant problem: It is utter, complete and total rubbish. Many criminal aliens were, in fact, given a pass by the Obama and Biden administrations. That wasn’t a policy decision; it was a willful, deliberate and patently unlawful refusal to comply with the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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Here’s What You Need to Know: Trump Did Not Ignore a Supreme Court Ruling in El Salvador Deportation Case

The media would have you believe that President Trump defied a Supreme Court ruling in the deportation case of Kilmar Abrego García, an MS-13 gang member recently returned to El Salvador.

However, his gang affiliation was established by an immigration court back in 2019. The deportation itself is legal.

The only legal question is whether he should have been sent to El Salvador, given that he had “withholding of removal” status due to a credible fear of gang violence.

The Supreme Court has ordered the administration to facilitate his return from El Salvador—but President Nayib Bukele has refused to hand over one of his own citizens, and the United States has no authority to forcibly retrieve him.

The media has completely misrepresented this case, sparking outrage among liberals who claim the man is a victim. They keep referring to him as “a Maryland man,” implying that he is a U.S. citizen. But he is not.

He was a U.S. resident who happened to be living in Maryland. In reality, he is a citizen of El Salvador who entered the United States in 2011 at the age of 16.

In most cases, the U.S. deports individuals to their country of citizenship or, if that’s not possible, to the last country they resided in before entering the U.S. which both instances is El Salvador.

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Five Reasons To Disbelieve The Report That Russia Wants An Airbase In Indonesia

None of those in the media who lend credence to Janes’ scandalous report can cogently explain what tangible benefit Russia or Indonesia would obtain from this base arrangement.

Janes Information Service set the Asian media ablaze on Monday after citing unnamed Indonesian sources to claim that Russia requested an airbase on the island of Biak near New Guinea. The Australian Defense Minister spoke to his Indonesian counterpart the next day, however, who told him that this report is “simply not true.” Keen observers would have already known even before this that Janes’ report about Russia wanting an airbase in Indonesia likely wasn’t true for the following five reasons:

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1. Indonesia’s New President Is Passionately Pro-American

New Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, who was inaugurated last October after his election in February 2024 and served as Defense Minister from 2019 till then, made headlines for his phone call with Trump shortly after the latter’s electoral victory. He posted a video of their brief exchange where he offered to fly to congratulate him personally and even boasted about how “All my training is American”. This isn’t the behavior of someone who’s willing to get on the US’ bad side by hosting Russian warplanes.

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Report Shows Network News’ Maximum Slant On Trump Tariffs

Stocks closed up Monday on Wall Street. You could almost hear the collective groan from the Trump-hating corporate media. 

As irresponsible as ever, the Pravda Press have pumped up their doom-and-gloom coverage of President Trump’s tariff policies to DEFCON 1. Per usual, the usual left-bending media suspects have used the tariff battles and the volatile markets as a cudgel to politically pound Trump with, churning “recession” chatter while all but ignoring positive news in the U.S. economy. 

A new report from media tracker NewsBusters shows just how slanted the coverage has been. 

‘Intensions Clear as Day’

On April 4, the day the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported hiring in March had surged by a stronger-than-expected 228,000 jobs, the broadcast networks over the 24-hour period devoted 62 times more coverage on the Trump tariffs and market declines, according to the report, exclusively provided to The Federalist. 

“Nobody’s faulting the media for covering an ongoing trade war or a dramatic dip in the stock market. But when they can’t even spare a full minute to cover an incredibly positive jobs report, they make their intentions clear as day,” Bill D’Agostino, Media Editor for NewsBusters and Senior Research Analyst for the Media Research Center’s News Analysis division, told The Federalist. 

The hyperbolic networks devoted 10 times more coverage to the tariff story than to last week’s report of declining consumer prices . While the Consumer Price Index dipped, led by lower prices at the pumps, ABC News had nothing to say about the aggregate CPI decline, NewsBusters found. The broadcast news network did air 16 seconds on slightly rising egg prices, according to the report.  

Corporate news outlets in general couldn’t help but drown the good news on inflation in worries over Trump tariffs.  

“U.S. consumer prices unexpectedly fell in March amid cheaper gasoline and used motor vehicles, but the benign inflation reading is unlikely to be sustained after President Donald Trump doubled down on tariffs on imported Chinese goods,” Reuters proclaimed in an April 10 story. 

Broadcast coverage of the tariffs between April 2 and April 11 totaled 422 minutes and 45 seconds — more than 7 hours-worth.  

Total tariff coverage by the three networks, according to NewsBusters’ review: 

› ABC: 148 minutes, 41 seconds

› CBS: 130 minutes, 5 seconds

› NBC: 143 minutes, 59 seconds

Meanwhile, the networks devoted a measly 45 seconds to the April 4 jobs report over the 24-hour period, compared to 46 minutes, 50 seconds of tariffs coverage. Total jobs report coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: 14 seconds (vs 17 min 53 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 20 seconds (vs 12 min 7 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 11 seconds (vs 16 min 50 sec tariffs)

The networks spent a total of 173 seconds covering March’s Consumer Price Index decline over the 24-hour period beginning on April 10.  Meanwhile they, devoted nearly 31 minutes to tariff talk over the same period. 

Total CPI coverage by the three networks vs. tariff reporting:

› ABC: NONE (vs 11 min 54 sec tariffs)

› CBS: 9 sec (vs 13 min 28 sec tariffs)

› NBC: 165 sec (vs 5 min 27 sec tariffs)

D’Agostino asserts the flood of tariff coverage isn’t born out of a concern for the economy; it’s about damaging the Trump administration’s image. The song remains the same for an accomplice media that has spent the past decade trying to crush Trump and the MAGA movement. 

“Every news item we study, it’s always the same story. The corporate media are only ever on the hunt for bad news about the President,” the media analyst said. 

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The Truth About the Military Parade: It’s for the 250th Anniversary of the Army Not Trump’s Birthday

Once again, the media and Twitter pundits are misrepresenting President Trump.

They claim he wants a military parade in his honor, but the truth is, the event is meant to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—it just happens to fall on his birthday.

Critics keep pointing out that Trump never served in the military. Ironically, neither did Biden, Obama, or Clinton, yet Democrats never questioned their right to serve as commander-in-chief.

Trump’s veteran status is irrelevant; he is the president, and as commander-in-chief, it is both logical and appropriate for him to preside over a major military anniversary parade.

Liberals have compared the proposed parade to military displays in Russia or North Korea—completely missing the point that allies like Britain, France, and others also hold large military parades or include the armed forces in major national celebrations.

They’re also complaining about the parade’s proposed budget, calling it wasteful—despite consistently opposing efforts to cut actual government waste. It’s telling that they only seem to care about spending when it involves honoring the military.

Where veterans should truly be outraged is in how the media, in their effort to attack Trump, are downplaying the significance of the Army’s 250th anniversary—as if this isn’t a major milestone, or as if the Army hasn’t done enough for this country to deserve recognition. That’s the real insult.

The idea for a parade first emerged in 2017 after President Trump attended France’s Bastille Day celebration and expressed admiration for their display of military strength.

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Media Working Overtime to Distort the Politics of Alleged Arsonist Who Burned Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion

Cody Balmer, the suspect who allegedly burned the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion, while Governor Josh Shapiro and his family were in it, is now known to be a far left socialist and BLM supporter.

That is not how the media is reporting on him.

A memo must have gone out because at least two liberal media outlets are emphasizing the fact that Balmer was ‘critical of the Democrats.’

What might a person infer from that last part? That he’s a right winger? Is that why they media is doing this? Or are they trying to imply that Democrats are dealing with threats just like Republicans? Either way, it’s completely dishonest.

See this report from ABC News (emphasis is ours):

Arson at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence was ‘domestic terrorism’: Fire chief

Cody Balmer, who is suspected of starting a fire on Sunday at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence, was denied bail at his arraignment on Monday.

Balmer — a mechanic who had previously expressed disdain for Democrats on social media — was arrested in connection with the fire early Sunday, sources familiar with the suspected arsonist told ABC News.

Way down at the bottom of the article is this part:

“The attacker was not a fan of Trump I understand just from what I’ve read and from what I’ve been told,” said Trump, adding that he was not informed of the motive in the incident. “The attacker basically wasn’t a fan of anybody’s. Probably just a whack job. And certainly a thing like that cannot be allowed to happen.”

Sources familiar with Balmer said his public grievances with the Democratic party were primarily related to financial issues.

Absolutely nowhere does the article describe the suspect as left or far left.

Over at CNN, same thing. This guy expressed disdain for Democrats.

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