In the last week, Pete Hegseth has seen top Republicans blame the war in Iran for catastrophic midterm losses, Democrats vow to impeach him, and legacy media report that the president is polling staff about his Secretary of War’s fate.
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Hegseth stands behind the war and the president — who has repeatedly praised him this week — and argues that history will look kindly on Donald Trump for what he has done.
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“Iran is devastated,” he told The Daily Wire on Monday afternoon, asked what needs to happen for the war to officially conclude.
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The president has the upper hand on any path that he chooses to take — to include saying, ‘Hey, we’re done, and we’re going to watch your nuclear material, you better not move it.’
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“Whatever he wants to do is his prerogative,” he added, “and the War Department is prepared to give him the tools to execute on that.”
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Asked whether Democrats will have enough votes to impeach him, Hegseth said he wasn’t worried and previewed a Tuesday press conference at the Pentagon.
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“Actually, I hope all of you will join us,” he told reporters Monday in Newport, Rhode Island.
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“We’re going to do a press conference tomorrow morning at the Pentagon on this very topic.”
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House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries said this week that he is a “hard yes” on a resolution to impeach Hegseth, joining outgoing Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie in his aggressive effort to remove Hegseth from his role.
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Massie introduced the articles of impeachment on the House floor on Monday.
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“The so-called secretary of defense has abused his power, undermined our national security and engineered this reckless and costly war of choice in Iran,” Jeffries told ABC News.
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“Pete Hegseth has to go.”
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Hegseth spoke as he departed the Naval War College, where he delivered a series of announcements and slammed those at the college harboring a “stubborn undercurrent of passive-aggressive institutional resistance” to the Trump administration’s changes.
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He accused Democrats of playing “the political games” they have long directed at Trump.
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“Their disagreements are with [our] success,” he argued.
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He cited European partners increasing their commitments, a counter-cartel coalitiion in Central and South America, and alliances in the Pacific.
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“The things that we’ve accomplished and with Midnight Hammer and Absolute Resolve and Southern Spear and Epic Fury are things that will change the face of the globe for generations,” he said.
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We know the world is a better and safer place as a result, and so if we want to litigate that, the success of those things, I’m happy to do that all day long.”
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Hegseth also addressed divisions within the Republican Party about the war in Iran, responding to a question from The Daily Signal’s Reagan Reese about Vice President JD Vance’s post linking the midterm losses to the war.
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“I appreciate the Vice President very much, and I’m not going to get in the middle of a finger-pointing exercise,” he said.
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We all give earnest feedback on everything, and ultimately, when the president says, he’d do it again, I agree.”
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Sometimes a decision can be unpopular, the Secretary of War argued, but still necessary.
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“And that’s I think, where I land on that,” he said.
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“Someone had to confront the Iranian regime’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon, and for 47 years, no president was willing to do it.”
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“History will judge him very kindly, and the military delivered,” he argued.
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Before Democrats take power in January, Hegseth said, Republicans’ priority should be securing funding for the War Department.
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“My call to Republicans is: let’s come together through a reconciliation bill to fund President Trump’s War Department with a historic generational investment…
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we need to have dominance at every echelon, and that reconciliation bill, from super-intelligence, to space, to Iron Dome, to munitions, to shipbuilding, you name it, is going to ensure that our department not just stays toe to toe, but dominates into the future, which is what the president expects.”
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“My team, we’re not worried about the noise,” he added.
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“This is what I told the troops too: don’t worry about the noise.
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We’re focused on delivering the president’s agenda, which is the kind of funding our department needs in order to dominate the future”
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