Daily Beast: Top Hegseth Aide Warns Even Bigger Bombshells Are Coming after Second Signal Chat

[Dennis Donovan]

Daily Beast - Top Hegseth Aide Warns Even Bigger Bombshells Are Coming after Second Signal Chat

John Ullyot, the Pentagon’s recently departed chief spokesman, published a lengthy op-ed Sunday criticizing Hegseth’s leadership.

Yasmeen Hamadeh
Updated Apr. 21 2025 5:43AM EDT
Published Apr. 20 2025 10:52PM EDT

The Pentagon’s former chief spokesman has warned that more “bombshell stories” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are set to leak within days.

In a lengthy op-ed for Politico on Sunday, John Ullyot, who has served in several communications roles across President Donald Trump’s two terms and resigned from the Pentagon last week, ripped into Hegseth’s embarrassing blunders and claimed many in his “own inner circle” would “applaud quietly” should Trump oust him from his post.

Ullyot’s prediction came within hours of the revelation that Hegseth had a second secret Signal group sharing attack secrets before bombings in Yemen—and that this time it was his wife and his brother who were on it.

“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president—who deserves better from his senior leadership,” Ullyot wrote. “President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining in his role for much longer.”

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[tanyev]

1. "President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his top officials to account."

Oh, is that how we’re describing “throwing people under the bus” now?

[Cosmocat]

2. I am grateful that I hadn't taken a sip of coffee before reading that

because my macbook might have been ruined from the spit take.

Dude hires incompetent clowns, he and his minions double time countless times to defend their clownishment until it reached the point where he has to pull the plug, and he takes his time doing it to give a feel that he wasn't reacting to the criticism.

T=

[UpInArms]

6. Ooooh ... that was barfiness incarnate

[Kid Berwyn]

3. That explains all the fired IGs.

Going from memory, 19 — too many to list off the top of the pin…

[RockRaven]

4. I admit to being curious what is bigger than the signal chats...

I suppose time will tell.

[yardwork]

5. Damage control.

They'll get rid of him so the news doesn't report what he's done.

[Dixiegrrrl]

7. They HOPE it won't be,reported.

Sounds as if that secret is out now.