Pete Hegseth walked to the Pentagon lectern at 8 a.m. Tuesday for his first news conference there since May. He spoke for just under 30 minutes and went after the congressman trying to remove him.
"This is not patriotism. This is sabotage," Hegseth said. He called the eight articles that Rep. Thomas Massie called up on the House floor Monday "a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment."
Hegseth said the remedy for a policy disagreement is "not handing the House and Senate floor to the Democrats so that they can run a show trial against the president and the secretary of war while Republicans still control Congress."
House Republican leaders may do what he asked tonight.
