Donald Trump reaffirmed support for Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth in an article slamming the barrage of Democrat attacks on him.
President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed support for Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth on Thursday, posting from his account on Truth Social an article slamming the barrage of Democrat attacks on him.
The post from Trump, in addition to his verbal assurances to Hegseth himself, show that he still fully backs Hegseth – contrary to reports claiming he is considering other options.
The op-ed, by the New York Post‘s Miranda Devine, is entitled: “Dems’ attacks on the intelligent, articulate and patriotic Pete Hegseth show why they lost – a salute to Trump’s defense secretary pick.”
Devine touted his qualifications, writing:
Intelligent, articulate, patriotic, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard, a combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, with two Bronze Stars, Hegseth, 44, is an inspired choice to lead the Pentagon and rid it of the woke poison that has sent recruitment levels down the toilet.
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He’s a lot better qualified to run the Defense Department than Kamala Harris ever was to be commander-in-chief.
She called Hegseth:
The perfect patriot to restore the morale of a dispirited military that has seen humiliation heaped on top of indignity in the Biden-Harris era — from the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan to the collapse of the Gaza pier, not to mention the exhibitionistic sexual fetishism that seems to have infected elements of the armed services.
