Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth poked fun at Signalgate on Thursday, referencing the scandal earlier this year in which he shared sensitive military planning around U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen via the online messaging platform Signal.

Hegseth, speaking at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, spotted fellow Trump administration official, United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz, in the crowd. It was Waltz who started the Signal group chat and inadvertently added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.

“I see Mike........

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