Pete Hegseth Should Resign Over Signal Group Chat Leak, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton Says

CBS Boston

March 31, 2025

In the days since the editor of The Atlantic disclosed that he had been accidentally included by top Trump administration officials in a discussion over a non-secure messaging app of sensitive information about a pending military action, Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton, a decorated Marine veteran, has been hearing from a lot of his military contacts.

"They're disgusted," Moulton told WBZ-TV's political analyst Jon Keller. "And the ones who are still on active duty, I think, are honestly wondering, how are they expected to lead their troops? How are they expected to make sure that their Marines or soldiers or airmen or sailors actually follow the rules to keep our nation safe when the top guy in the Department of Defense refuses to do so and has zero accountability for his own behavior?"

That would be Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who Moulton said now has "three options here: the honorable thing to do, the right thing to do, is to resign, because you've lost all moral authority to tell people in your command to follow orders, basic orders, that you're unwilling to follow yourself. "

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