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Paranoia is engulfing the White House right now. Donald Trump can't stop the leaks Pete Hegseth can't stop the leaks like the leaks that took place on Easter Sunday where we learned that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has no business being the Secretary of Defense because he has no leadership experience and he was a Fox News host before becoming the Secretary of Defense. In any event, that he was involved in more classified communications using the Signal text message app, similar to what we learned about several weeks ago. There's a whole other text message thread, this time involving Pete Hegseth and his wife, his brother and his lawyer, where they were also talking about FA18 strikes against the Houthis, similar to that other text message thread where they included the editor in Chief from the Atlantic. Yep, there were four separate sources. Lots of people want to leak information on you there. Pete Hegseth, who told the New York Times what went down, a blockbuster story on Easter. Here's what the New York Times reported. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15, and a private Signal Group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat. Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on Signal Chat included the fights, the flight schedules for the FA18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen, essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of the Atlantic. Oh, Pete Hegseth. That doesn't sound too good. But also, Pete Hegseth has been firing all of his core staff recently. His chief of staff, senior advisor, Deputy Chief of staff, the Deputy secretaries, Chief of staff, they were all fired on Friday. Why? Because Hegseth is paranoid. He thinks everybody's leaking, but you fired those people and the leaks keep on happening. Hegseth, what in the world is going on here? Tom Cotton, maga, Republican Senator, wrote the following on Sunday it seems like the leak investigation at the Pentagon needs to continue to find these latest leakers. Secretary Hegseth is busy Implementing Trump's America first agenda while these leakers are trying to undermine them both. Shameful. This is what the MAGA Republicans are focusing on. That's what's actually shameful, that they're worried about the leakers versus our classified information being sent out to the Secretary of Defense, wife, brother and personal lawyer. As our editor in chief Ron Philip Koski correctly points out, what is shameful is that your take is to hunt down more Trump appointees and hires who dare to tell the truth about the debacle happening at the Pentagon because of Hegseth rather than taking a principal stand against that shit show. But sadly, that would require courage and you don't have courage. As CNN reported, following a series of leaks about military planning for the Panama Canal and the Middle east and Musk's visit to the Pentagon, Hexith is beginning to lash out. And he grew suspicious that senior military officials as well as some of his closest advisors were leaking information to undermine him. These are his people. These are Trump people. These are their appointees. Let's be clear. Although they'll probably say these are radical leftist deep staters that goes on to say at one point Hexith even demanded the FBI probe into the leaks, which some of his aides advised against. Sources said. So more leakers. There was already an active inspector general investigation focusing on Hegseth and bring the FBI might only invite more scrutiny, those aides advised. Should also be noted that his own spokesperson who quit last week, John Elliott. John Elliott just wrote an op ed for Politico and here's what it's called. Former top Pentagon spokesperson details the month from hell inside the agency the total chaos at the Department of Defense is becoming a major distraction. Rights John Elliott and Elliot again, who was Hexif spokesperson says he expects there to be major, major bombshells that are going to be dropping this week in addition to what we are reporting right here. One of the things I want to point out about Hexith is that this was always his M.O. right here, which is to blame leakers and say it's everybody's fault. Even during the confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth when there was all of this information that accused him of sexual assault, that accused him of being drunk on the gy job, that accused him of going to strip clubs and doing all of these just, you know, unprofessional things, remember what he said? Leakers, leakers, leakers. Here, play this clip.