Bangladesh, March 27 -- US President Donald Trump has downplayed concerns over the recent leak of a private Signal group chat involving senior administration officials discussing military action in Yemen. Trump dismissed the incident as a “witch hunt” by the media and raised doubts about the reliability of the encrypted messaging platform, Signal. The controversy erupted after a journalist was inadvertently added to a sensitive group chat regarding US airstrikes on Houthi militants.

The leak came to light on March 24 when The Atlantic published a report detailing conversations between high-ranking members of the Trump administration, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Director of National...