Hegseth launches counterattack against impeachment bid; says 'will continue Trump’s wars'
In his first press conference in six months, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forcefully rejected an impeachment effort led by Thomas Massie
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday, rubbished an attempt to impeach him, claiming that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over "policy disagreements" and not the high crimes or offences the nation's founders intended. In his first press conference in six months, Hegseth launched a
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday, rubbished an attempt to impeach him, claiming that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over "policy disagreements" and not the high crimes or offences the nation's founders intended. In his first press conference in six months, Hegseth launched a
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday, rubbished an attempt to impeach him, claiming that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over "policy disagreements" and not the high crimes or offences the nation's founders intended. In his first press conference in six months, Hegseth launched a
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Tuesday, rubbished an attempt to impeach him, claiming that a rogue lawmaker is targeting him over "policy disagreements" and not the high crimes or offences the nation's founders intended.
In his first press conference in six months, Hegseth launched a counteroffensive against outgoing Representative Thomas Massie's effort to impeach him, calling the move a "political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment."
Claiming that he has been carrying out “lawful military operations” that were “successful," he said in the 250 years of the American republic, no secretary of war or secretary of defence has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations.
“Not once, war powers resolution or not, not under Reagan in Lebanon, not under Clinton in Kosovo, not under Obama in Iraq and Syria, not under Biden in Iraq and Syria, that’s the standard. The history is clear and it’s very straightforward,” Hegseth said.
According to him, the move against him has been driven by “policy disagreements, not misdemeanours, not treason, not bribery, not the kinds of offences the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.”
He reiterated that he stands behind every military operation that he executed following the order of President Donald Trump and added that he “would do it again tomorrow.”
“I stand behind every one of these operations, I was proud to execute them, and I would do it again tomorrow,” he said.
"If they want to come for the warriors, they are going to have to come through me," Hegseth added.
Trump hailed Hegseth after his speech, saying his secretary of war gets an "'A' PLUS". "Pete Hegseth gets an “A” PLUS, PLUS, PLUS for his defense against a disgruntled, angry, defeated, former Congressman, Thomas Massie, a TOTAL LOSER!" he said in a social media post.