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YET AGAIN, FORMER FOX NEWS PRESENTER TURNED US DEFENCE SECRETARY PETE HEGSETH IS IN HOT WATER AFTER ANOTHER GROUP CHAT HAS BEEN UNCOVERED - LEAVING MANY ASKING IF IT'S TIME WE BOUGHT
THE LETTUCE BACK 23:47, 21 Apr 2025Updated 08:46, 22 Apr 2025 Following another major gaffe, could Pete Hegseth be about to face his toughest challenge yet, the return of the Daily Star
lettuce? Donald Trump’s defence secretary is in hot water yet again after he disclosed minute-by-minute details of airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen to his wife, a former Fox News
producer, his brother, who was hired into the Pentagon, and lawyer via a Signal group chat, according to a close source. . The leak is reportedly separate from an earlier incident involving
another Signal group, in which Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and others discussed sensitive operational details. That group also included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, raising
further concerns about the handling of classified intelligence. With multiple national security concerns surrounding the former Fox News presenter, his tenure within Donald Trump's
close circle may be coming to a close, and now, people have taken to social media to ask us to bring the lettuce back. Article continues below Republicans Against Trump tweeted a picture of
Hegseth next to a lettuce, with the caption: “Here we go.” Even a US Senate hopeful has weighed in. Catherine Fleming Bruce, campaigning in South Carolina, wrote: “It might be time to revive
the lettuce trope in politics, this time for Hegseth. "Folks from the UK will know exactly what that means....” Another X user wrote: “It's on folks… #Hegseth vs. #Lettuce … Place
your bets..” One person replied to a clip of Trump waffling in the Oval Office with: “Trump makes a word salad from the lettuce that will outlast Pete Hegseth”. Some have said to go for a
cabbage head instead of a lettuce to increase the likeness. This comes as NPR reports that the White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace
Hegseth. A source told the outlet that if the details on that group chat were leaked before the air strikes hit, it would have seriously endangered U.S. pilots. However, since the President
himself previously faced multiple felony counts over his alleged mishandling of classified documents, many ask if he will actually take action against Hegseth. The Florida case was dropped
after an assassination attempt at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump has backed Hegseth, telling reporters in the White House that “He's doing a great job, ask
the Houthis how he's doing.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that there's an effort to replace Hegseth, posted on X that President Trump "stands
strongly" behind him. Article continues below Politicians have accused Trump of just being too weak to fire him. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer posted on X: "The details
keep coming out. We keep learning how Pete Hegseth put lives at risk. But Trump is still too weak to fire him. Pete Hegseth must be fired." _FOR THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS AND STORIES
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