Top Pentagon Spokesperson Quits, Then Drops 'Bombshell' Warning About Pete Hegseth

John Ullyot, who resigned past week arsenic main Pentagon spokesperson, predicted that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth volition besides beryllium retired of a occupation soon.

And helium warned that adjacent much “bombshell” stories astir Hegseth and the Defense Department are astir to drop.

“It’s been a period of full chaos astatine the Pentagon,” Ullyot, who has served successful a fig of roles wrong President Donald Trump’s orbit implicit the years, wrote successful an op-ed for Politico. “From leaks of delicate operational plans to wide firings, the dysfunction is present a large distraction for the president — who deserves amended from his elder leadership.”

Hegseth has been nether occurrence aft a bid of reports that helium repeatedly shared highly delicate accusation extracurricular of authoritative channels, particularly via the Signal messaging app.

Last month, it was revealed that nationalist information advisor Michael Waltz inadvertently added a writer to a Signal radical chat with different apical officials, including Hegseth, who shared details astir subject strikes successful Yemen, among different things.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that Hegseth had a second, much idiosyncratic Signal chat, wherever helium shared delicate accusation with his wife, member and others.

He besides reportedly allowed his woman to beryllium successful connected delicate meetings with overseas officials, and reportedly intended to little Elon Musk connected subject plans should a warfare interruption retired with China, which Trump cancelled erstwhile helium recovered out.

Also successful caller days, 3 elder leaders were forced out at the Defense Department amid an probe into leaks.

Ullyot called it a “strange and baffling purge” that has led to “a adjacent illness wrong the Pentagon’s apical ranks.”

“The gathering is successful disarray nether Hegseth’s leadership,” Ullyot wrote, calling the past weeks “total chaos” and the “month from hell.”

“President Donald Trump has a beardown grounds of holding his apical officials to account,” helium wrote. “Given that, it’s hard to spot Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth remaining successful his relation for overmuch longer.”

And helium warned there’s much to come.

“There are precise apt much shoes to driblet successful abbreviated order, with adjacent bigger bombshell stories coming this week, cardinal Pentagon reporters person been telling sources privately,” helium wrote.

Read the afloat op-ed here.