A new poll showed that most Americans believe the 'Signal' chat scandal involving senior members of President Donald Trump's administration is "very serious."
The survey, which was conducted by YouGov on Tuesday (March 25), asked 5,976 U.S. adults "how serious of a problem do you think it is that senior members of the Trump administration, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussed highly sensitive military plans using an unclassified chat application in a group that inadvertently included a journalist," with a majority 53% responding "very serious," 21% responding "somewhat serious," 8% responding "not very serious," 5% responding "not at all serious" and 13% claiming they were "not sure."
Trump personally claimed the reported Signal group chat was "really not a big deal" during a radio interview with week.
“There weren’t details, and there was nothing in there that compromised. And it had no impact on the attack, which was very successful,” Trump said via the Hill.
On Monday (March 24), Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic magazine's editor in chief, insisted he saw "minute-by-minute accounting" of how the United States intended to bomb Yemen, despite Hegseth denying the classified information was ever accidentally sent in a text message. Goldberg publicly claimed that he was inadvertently included in a Signal message chain with top officials from Trump's administration as Hegseth, Vance, and others discussed plans to strike against the Houthi terror group in Yemen earlier this month.
Hegseth publicly denied that sensitive "war plans" were ever discussed in the chat group and accused Goldberg of having a history of being "deceitful and highly discredited."