Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bad week just got worse. That’s after the long-awaited release Thursday of an inspector general’s report on his sharing of highly sensitive military attack plans on the unclassified app Signal earlier this year.

Hegseth claimed Wednesday that the report was “ total exoneration .”

In reality, now that we’ve seen it, it’s anything but.

To recap, the investigation dealt with one of the earliest scandals of the second Trump administration, often called “Signalgate.” It was revealed in March that Hegseth had shared operational details of looming strikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on the unclassified app. The information

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