“I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s pathetic” — this is how US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth described the continent in what should have been a confidential group chat made up of the Trump administration's national security heavyweights.
The contents of the chat — which included US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz, Trump's national security adviser — were leaked by the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who found himself added to the discussion, likely by accident.
