“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s excuse for the group chat scandal isn’t adding up.
“All of these people should be fired, maybe some of them should go to jail,” Colbert said of the growing scandal involving key members of President Donald Trump’s inner circle.
National security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, by accident to a group message discussion in the Signal app involving highly classified military plans and other sensitive matters.
The group chat also included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, among others.
Rather than offer an explanation or apology, Hegseth instead attacked Goldberg as “deceitful and highly discredited” and a “guy that peddles in garbage.”
That led Colbert to one burning question.
“Then why was he on the war planning group chat? Why was he in the chat?” Colbert asked, getting closer to the camera and louder as he spoke:
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″‘This guy is an idiot and everyone hates him,’” Colbert mocked. “You’re the guys who put him in the chat! You did! ‘He’s a moron.’ OK, then don’t put him in the secret chat! If he’s a bad guy, why is he in the chat?”
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