The White House lashed out at The New York Times report of a second Signal messaging chat created by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that included his wife and brother and in which he shared details of a March military airstrike against Yemen’s Houthi terrorists, insisting that no classified information was shared.

White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said that “no matter how many times the legacy media tries to resurrect the same nonstory, they can’t change the fact that no classified information was shared.”

She added, “Recently fired ‘leakers’ are continuing to misrepresent the truth to soothe their shattered egos and undermine the president’s agenda, but the administration will continue to hold them accountable.”

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