Vice President JD Vance is blaming the media for continuing its long-running crusade against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with the latest attacks on hosting Signal chats.
“I have 100% confidence in the secretary; I know the president does, and really, the entire team does,” Vance told reporters on the tarmac in Agra, India.
“It’s one of the most bizarre things about the Hegseth nomination: From the very beginning, the media seemed to want to tank it, and when they failed, and he got confirmed, they decided they wanted to keep on that effort to destroy Pete Hegseth as a man, as the Secretary of Defense.
“I think he’s doing a great job.”
Hegseth’s leadership has restored a “warrior ethos” to a struggling military that focused too long on woke politics under former President Joe Biden, Vance hailed.
“I think that he’s brought a certain spirit back to the Department of Defense, and if you look at our military recruitment numbers, in my view, that’s testament to his leadership of the military,” Vance continued. “It’s that for the first time in a very long time, we don’t have terrible recruitment problems in the Army, in the Navy, in the Air Force.”
