‘Signalgate’ escalates as Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials SUED over war plans chat

Donald Trump‘s top officials at the center of a Signal chat leak scandal are now being sued.

On Monday, the editor in chief of The Atlantic revealed he was added to an unclassified group chat involving several of Trump’s most important cabinet members discussing Yemen war plans.

Now government watchdog group American Oversight filed a federal records lawsuit to ‘recover unlawfully deleted messages and prevent further destruction.’

The officials now embroiled in the lawsuit include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The Federal Records Act requires that federal officials save any communications related to their government business, which are then preserved by the National Archives.