‘I don’t view Signal as important’

President Donald J. Trump blew off a new round of media smears targeting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the use of Signal, dismissing the importance of the encrypted messaging app.

In a series of anonymously sourced reports, the mainstream media has spent days trying to relaunch the so-called “Signalgate” scandal in a coordinated propaganda campaign with the obvious goal of forcing the outsider out at the Pentagon before he can repair the damage done by the Biden administration, particularly when it comes to cutting out the “woke” cancer that was allowed to metastasize throughout the military.

When asked about the phony controversy and whether he still has faith in Hegseth while onboard Air Force One on Friday, the commander in chief shut down the media hoax machine as more of the same “fake news.”

Reporter: Any update on Hegseth?

Trump: About what?

Reporter: Signal

Trump: I don’t view Signal as important. I think that’s fake news pic.twitter.com/USrwmzzg0B

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“Mr. President, any update on Secretary Hegseth? Your confidence in him?” asked the reporter.

“About what?” Trump asked.

“About Signal,” the reporter replied, “having Signal on his…”

“I don’t view Signal as important,” the president answered. “I think that’s fake news. So, I don’t view it as important.”

Trump’s shootdown of the warmed-over “Signalgate” scam came as he was en route to Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, who died earlier this week.

The pope’s passing put a damper on the big rollout of new reports about Hegseth’s alleged misuse of the app and insistence that he can’t be trusted. Led by the propaganda mongers at The New York Times, the stories are a transparent attempt to relaunch last month’s “Signalgate” scam centering around a leaked discussion of top administration officials about strikes on the terrorist Houthis in Yemen.

It was a conversation that notorious Trump-hating fabulist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic was inexplicably allowed to eavesdrop on for mysterious reasons that have yet to be fully explained believably.

Despite intense hype from the media, “Signalgate” failed to resonate with the public and soon disappeared only to be repackaged and launched into the news cycle on Sunday night, timing designed for the maximum impact on the week’s news cycle, until the news that Pope Francis died broke hours later, foiling the bad actors.

The “fake news” peddlers have been relentless with their daily assembly line of Hegseth hit pieces, the latest which came out on Friday with another New York Times story claiming that the SECDEF set up signal on a computer in his Pentagon office, “according to two people with knowledge of the matter” who may not even exist.

“The secretary of defense’s use of communications systems and channels is classified,” Pentagon spox Sean Parnell said, rebutting the Times’ latest anti-Hegseth scoop. “However, we can confirm that the secretary has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.”

“There’s a lot of people in the city who reject monumental change, and I think, frankly, that’s why we’ve seen a smear campaign against the Secretary of Defense,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday, telling reporters that Trump is “strongly behind” Hegseth as the smears continue to swirl.

Staff Writer

Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

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